
Interview

ed


Remarks

Bonney missiles, and supersonic and swept wing

aircraft

4

Abbott, Ira H. Arthur

Levine

8/60 Success of research at the NACA, position as

directors

Transcript 8 pgs 5

Abraham-

son, Lt. Gen.

James

reporter 2/6/84 Goals for the space shuttle program and future

of the space station

Transcript 4 pgs 990 Copyrighted by

USA Today

Abraham-

son, Lt. Gen.

James

Malcolm

McConnell

2/8/84 Goals for the space shuttle program and future

of the space station


Albert, John

G.

James

Grimwood

5/26/67 Gemini program; Agena docking target and

launch vehicle


Aldrin, Buzz William

Barry

Furlong

1966 Transcript 33 pgs 13282

& 31250

Copyrighted by

World Book

Encyclopedia

Science Service

Aldrin, Buzz Peter

Vorzimmer

4/4/67 astronaut training; extravehicular activity

(EVA); Gemini 12 flight

Transcript

&

CD

50 pgs

&

1 CD

31252

&

20188

Aldrin, Buzz William

Cromie

2/69 astronaut training; Apollo 11 flight Transcript 11 pgs 31252

Aldrin, Buzz Robert

Merrifield

7/7/70 Gemini and Apollo astronaut training,

operations, and post- mission activities

Transcript 15 pgs 30178 For MSC History

Aldrin, Buzz Robert

Sherrod

12/4/70 Apollo 11 flight Notes

&

Reel

CS

5 pgs

&

2 tapes

13291

&

20510

Aldrin, Buzz;

& Neil

Armstrong

Noel Hinners 7/20/79 10th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing,

anniversary activities

Transcript 5 pages 18915

Alfoso,

Emelio

& Robert

Thompson

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Research Engineer, Langley Research Center

(LaRC); energy absorbing seats

CS 1 tape 20037


Interview

ed


Remarks

Algranti,

Joseph S.

Unnamed

Interviewer

3/15/68 &

3/28/68

Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) aircraft

operations; T-33 aircraft; T-38 aircraft; earth

resources surveys; astronaut training


Allen, Lew Adam Gruen 3/3/89 Involvement of JPL with the Space Station

program and program management;

establishment of space station offices in Reston,

Virginia; and support to space station from

JPL orbiting platforms.

Transcript

&

CS

28 pgs

&

1 tape

57

&

20225

Allnutt,

Robert F.

Steve Dick 11/7/05 NASA career highlights Transcript 47 pgs 19826

Altneu, Irwin Lloyd

Swenson, Jr.

7/20/70 Apollo Transcript 27 pgs 66

Ames, Milton

Jr.

Richard

Hallion

7/26/71 Early supersonic flight Transcript 15 pgs 76

Amman,

Ernest

James

Grimwood &

Ivan Ertel

5/24/67 Weather prediction for Mercury and Gemini

launches; KSC launch control


Anders, Ben Chris Ray 1/22/87 CS 1 tape 20035

Anders,

William

“Bill”

Paul Rollins 10/8/97 Air Force career; selection as an astronaut;

crew selection for flights; Apollo 8 flight;

photographer of Earthrise photo; work as

executive secretary of the National Aeronautics

and Space Council (NASC); NASA post-Apollo


Anderson,

Senator

Clinton

Robert

Sherrod

7/25/68 Notes Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Anderson,

Paul

Adam Gruen 4/13/88 NASA budget issues in the Reagan era Transcript

&

CS

35 pgs

&

1 tape

95

&

20225

Anderson,

Robert &

Arnold

Hoffman

Courtney

Brooks

7/21/70 TRW winning Apollo lunar module (LM)

descent engine contract; designing the LM

descent engine; and relationship with

Grumman Aerospace, the LM prime contractor

Transcript 55 pgs 3567 For “Chariots for

Apollo”

Appold,

Norman C.

John Sloop 1/4/74 USAF, Lockheed research and development

(R&D), propulsion advances

Transcript

&

CS

94 pgs

&

1 tape

103

&

19998

Draft transcript

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a


Interview

ed


Remarks

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Arabian, Don Mr. Jones 6/12/73 Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Johnson

Space Center (JSC), Skylab 1 repairs


&

7589

Arifide, John Dr. Clayn

Years

JPL Interview - Venus Radar Mapper CS 1 tape 20035

Armistead,

Katherine H.

Richard P.

Hallion

12/10/76 Biographical information Transcript

CS

42 pgs

120 mins

6685

Armstrong,

Neil

William

Barry

Furlong

1966 Philosophy of life; education; X-20 Dynosoar;

X-15; difference in job between being a test

pilot and an astronaut; how he would feel about

being on the first Apollo flight to land on the

moon versus one of the later flights


&

PDF

31248

Copyrighted by

World Book

Encyclopedia

Science Service

Armstrong,

Neil

Peter

Vorzimmer

4/6/67 Gemini program; Gemini scientific

experiments; Gemini 5 flight; Gemini 8 flight;

astronaut training

Transcript 19 pgs PDF

30040

Armstrong,

Neil

William

Cromie

2/69 astronaut training; Apollo 11 flight; thoughts

on fame if lunar landing successful


31246

Armstrong,

Neil

Robert

Sherrod

9/23/71 Interview upon leaving NASA; Apollo 11 flight Notes

& CS

& Reel

& CD

12 pgs

& 1 tape

& 1 reel

& 1 CD

13285

& 20510

& 13291

& 20188

Armstrong,

Neil

Richard

Hallion

1/26/72 Participation in and knowledge of X-plane

projects

Notes 6 pgs 112

Armstrong,

Neil

James Burke 6/11/79 Apollo 11 mission and future space projects Transcript 15 pgs 114 Copyrighted by

the BBC

Armstrong,

Neil

Richard P.

Hallion

6/27/72 Biographical information Notes 6 pgs 6685

Armstrong,

Neil, Buzz

Aldrin,

Michael

Collins

Robert

Brooks

5/20/74 5th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing,

Apollo 11 flight


&

350


Interview

ed


Remarks

Armstrong,

William O.

James

Grimwood

1/24/67 Manned Space Flight Experiments Board

(MSFEB); scientific experiments in Mercury

and Gemini programs


30041

Asimov, Isaac Simon

Bourgin

11/74 Polish Space Exhibit #3 Transcript 17 pgs 123

Astrogeology

Interviews

A - O

Joe

Tatarewicz

and Andrew

Butrica

1993-

1994

Interviews with James Arnold, Joseph Boyce,

Clark Chapman, Jonathan Gradie, Klaus Keil,

Elbert King, and Tobias Owen re Lunar

Receiving Lab (LRL); lunar samples; LRL

quarantine measures; low priority of science

during Apollo 11 and 12; lunar scientists and

JSC management; Lunar Science Institute;

cooperation between planetary scientists; types

of science and scientists involved in planetary

science; scientists and engineers; geology of

lunar craters; Thomas Gold and lunar dust;

sterilization of planetary probes; planetary

rings; radar in astronomy; asteroid radar

astronomy; collaboration between radar and

non-radar astronomers; taxonomy of asteroids;

infrared astronomy of asteroids; impact of

NASA funding on planetary astronomy;

founding of planetary science department at the

University of Arizona; status of asteroid

astronomy; geochemistry and meteorites; Keil's

electron microprobe work at Ames Research

Center (ARC); Lunar and Planetary Institute

(LPI); Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics;

planetary geoscience; Eugene Shoemaker;

doing geology on the moon; Lunar Surface

Technology Group at JSC; selection of lunar

landing sites; Apollo 14 lunar samples; Gerard

Kuiper; planetary astronomy and the

University of Arizona; Martian atmosphere;

Apollo ultraviolet camera; International

Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE); Viking; Voyager;

Transcripts Various

lengths

19508


Interview

ed


Remarks

and Comet Rendezvous and Asteroid Flyby

(CRAF).

Astrogeology

Interviews

S - W

Joe

Tatarewicz

and Andrew

Butrica

1993-

1994

Interviews with Gerald Schaber, Eugene

Shoemaker, Bradford Smith, Laurence

Soderblom, Edward Stone, Gerald Wasserburg,

and Ewen Whitaker re Apollo 17 lunar radar

sounding experiment; Apollo lunar geology

training; Viking site selection; Apollo 14 and

Cone crater; lunar radar geology; Mars radar

geology; Voyager and Io geology; Pioneer

Venus; Venus geology; US – Soviet cooperation

in planetary geology; SIR-A; Magellan;

planetary radar astronomy; lunar regolith;

Jupiter’s Galilean satellites; Ganymede;

Europa; ice on Mercury; asteroids vs.

meteorites; Thomas Gold and lunar dust; Earth

mapping through lunar occultation; Near Earth

Objects (NEOs); planetary astronomy; space

photography; Clyde Tombaugh; Mariner 9;

Mariner 6 and 7; Mars geology; Hubble Space

Telescope (HST); Voyager; lunar geology;

planetary geology; Orbiting Geophysical

Observatory (OGO); Pioneer 10 and 11;

spacecraft design; Stone's role as Voyager

project scientist; Voyager 1; Voyager 2; Lunar

Receiving Laboratory (LRL); planetary

quarantine and back contamination; lunar

samples; handling lunar samples; long term

storage of lunar samples; lunar mapping;

naming lunar craters; Lunar Orbiter; Apollo

lunar photography; lunar photo geology;

Ranger site selection; impact vs volcanic source

of lunar craters; University of Arizona Lunar

and Planetary Laboratory (LPL); Gerard

Kuiper; and history of lunar nomenclature.

Transcripts Various

lengths

19509

Atkins, Adam L. 5/19/86 Biographical information CS 90 min 6685


Interview

ed


Remarks

Barbara Gruen

Atwood, J.

Leland

Loyd

Swenson, Jr.

7/16/70 North American Aviation; P-51 through X-15 Transcript 17 pgs 117 2 copies of

transcript

Atwood, J.

Leland

Robert

Sherrod

6/24/69 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 10 pgs 13285

Augerson,

Col. William

John A. Pitts 5/8/79 Astronaut selection process for Mercury

Project; life sciences

Transcript

&

CS

38 pgs

&

1 tape

118

&

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Bachman,

Dale

Lenz 4/25/68 Transcript Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Bacon, David Michael

Keller

10/3/67 Langley Research Center since 1920 Transcript

&

Reel

18 pgs

&

1 reel

124

&

20006

Baer, Jenny Not supplied 9/8/77 Biographical information Notes 6685

Bailey, Glenn James

Grimwood

12/13/66 Gemini contracting; Gemini paraglider Transcript 15 pgs PDF

30043

Bales, Steven James Burke 5/18/79 Apollo 11 lunar landing and operation of

guidance computer


the BBC

Bales, Steven Family

Channel

1996 Apollo 11 lunar landing Transcript 3 pgs 134 Copyrighted

Ballantine,

W.A.

Peter

Vorzimmer

1/16/67 Department of Defense (DoD) experiments on

Gemini flights


30044

Barlow, Mel

R.

Ivan Ertel

and Loyd

Swenson

1/28/70 Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) vs. earth orbit

rendezvous (EOR) studies; Apollo command

module (CM) design; benefits of space

program; Thomas Paine as NASA

administrator

Transcript 25 pgs 19518 For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Barna,

Gerald

Adam L.

Gruen

10/26/90 NASA Culture Study Transcript

&

CS

29 pgs

&

1 tape

6685

&

20225

Barnes,

Geneva B.

Glen Swanson 3/26/99 Apollo 11 crew post-flight world tour Transcript

1st CD

2nd CD

42 pgs

71 min

23 min

19519

&

PDF

50721

For “Before This

Decade is Out”


Interview

ed


Remarks

Barnes,

Richard J.H.

Steven Dick 1/24/06 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted

See Chief

Archivist

Bartoe, John-

David

Adam L.

Gruen

10/27/87 Management of the Space Station Freedom

(SSF) science program; Chief Scientist’s Office

present and future

Transcript

&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

140

&

20225

Bartoe, John-

David

Adam L.

Gruen

4/13/88 History as Chief Scientist Transcript

&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

140

&

20225

Bates, David

K.

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

47 pgs

&

1 tape

6685

&

20225

Baudry,

Patrick

Unnamed

interviewer

1/24/89 CS 1 tape 20035

Becker, John

V.

Walter

Bonney

3/27/73 X-1A and X-2, airplane explorations Transcript 12 pgs 148

Beckler,

David

Eugene

Emme

2/14/74 The Office of Defense Mobilization, Science

Advisory Committee, Presidential Science

Advisory Committee, science and space policy,

and creation of NASA.


Beeler, D.

Elroy

Richard P.

Hallion

12/1/76 historical flight research Transcript

&

CS

66 pgs

&

1 tape

6685

&

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

Beggs, James Boards and

Directors

Magazine

Circa

1981

Government/industry relationship; space

commercialization; NASA organization,

management, and budgeting


Beggs, James Ivelisse

Rodriguez

12/15/82 Highlights of 1982; space shuttle flights;

Landsat D satellite launch and Earth resources

observation; space sciences research;

construction of remote manipulator arm by

Canada; FY1983 budget; Spacelab project;

planetary exploration; aeronautical research;

space station project; coop with DoD; space

shuttle capability for satellite repair/retrieval;

TDRSS; navigation and search and rescue

satellites; space technology spinoffs



Interview

ed


Remarks

Beggs, James Kevin Rusnak

and Rebecca

Wright

3/7/02 Beggs’ NASA career Transcript

& CD

& Floppy

Disk

83 pgs

4 CDs

1 Disk

18108

Bell, David John Logsdon 10/4/67 Stimulating the economy, increasing defense

and space spending, setting specific goals for

the space program, and the decision to go to the

moon.

Reel

&

Transcript

1 tape

&

19 pgs

20000

&

153

Bell, Lucian Robert

Sherrod

3/12/70 Apollo 6 Saturn V test flight; LOX; Pogo Notes 4 pgs 13285 Telephone

interview

Belles, Franks John L. Sloop 5/30/74 Biographical information Transcript 17 pgs 6685

Bellman,

Donald R.

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

111 pgs

&

2 tapes

6685

Belloli, Jay

&

Jurrie Van

Der Woude

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

CS 1 tape 20037 Side 2, Van Der

Woude tape

Belsley,

Steven E.

Walter T.

Bonney

9/24/74 Participation at Ames Research Center (ARC)

on stability, control, and automatic control of

aircraft


Berg, Capt.

Winfred E.

Milton,

Lomask, and

Green

4/10/67 Development of the Vanguard launch vehicle

and launch of Explorer 1 satellite


Bergen,

William

Robert

Sherrod

8/20/69 Circumstances of departure from North

American Rockwell Corp

Notes 1 pg. 13285 Telephone

interview

Berger,

Wallace

not supplied 11/3/89 Biographical information CS 90 min 6685

Telephone

interview

Berggren, Dr.

Willard P.

John L. Sloop 3/21/74 Biographical information Transcript

&

CS

51 pgs

&

1 tape

6685

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Bergman,

Jules

Robert

Sherrod

2/22/71 Questions regarding the feeding of the Phillips

report to Congress


interview


Interview

ed


Remarks

Berman, Kurt Courtney G.

Brooks

12/2/71 The design of the Lunar Module (LM) and the

LM ascent stage by Bell Aerospace


Berry, Dr.

Charles

James

Grimwood

3/18/68 Mercury 7 astronaut selection, Gemini crews,

grounding Shepard and Slayton, post-flight

medical problems of Schirra and Cooper, and

effects of 0 G and EVA


Berry, Dr.

Charles

Robert

Merrifield

10/30/67 MSC History: medical operations –

institutional aspects; crew support; scientific

issues; Berry’s selection as medic; agency roles;

flight monitoring; set up of medical program;

grounding of Slayton and Shepard


Berry, Dr.

Charles

Robert

Sherrod

12/15/69 medical research and operations for the Apollo

program

Notes 3 pgs 13285 Telephone

interview

Berry, Dr.

Charles

Robert

Sherrod


program


Berry, Dr.

Charles

Robert

Sherrod


program


interview

Berry, Dr.

Charles

Robert

Sherrod

8/2/71 Psychiatrists in Apollo program, speaking

engagements regarding Apollo, space food

Notes 2 pgs

13285

Telephone

interview

Berry, Dr.

Charles A.

Robert

Sherrod

4/24/73 CS

Reel

2 tapes

2 tapes

20510 &

13291

Bessio, Oscar Sloop, John

L.

8/10/73 CS 1 tape 19489

Bikle, Paul Richard P.

Hallion


Bingman,

Charles F.

Unnamed

interviewer

7/19/67 Space Task Group (STG) organization and

decision about site of the Manned Spacecraft

Center (MSC)


Bioletti,

Carlton

Walter

Bonney

9/25/74 Design and development of wind tunnels at

Ames and Langley Research Centers (LaRC)


Bird, John D. Ivan Ertel 6/20/66 Development of the lunar orbit rendezvous

(LOR) concept and early designs for the lunar

module (LM)


Bisson, Ed Virginia

Dawson

3/22/85 Transcript 9 pgs 6685 For “Engines and

Innovations”


Interview

ed


Remarks

Black, Jr.,

Fred

Robert

Sherrod

2/27/73 North American Contract with NASA for the

Apollo Program

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

86 pgs

&

2 tapes

2 tapes

13285 &

20510 &

13291

Bland,

William M.

Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

10/28/69 Apollo Notes 2 pgs 13285 Telephone

interview

Bolce,

William J.

Robert

Sherrod

10/8/70 Science and Technology Advisory Committee

for Manned Spaceflight (STAC); Apollo

Executives Board


interview

Bond, Aleck Unnamed

interviewer

6/12/73 Involvement in the Mercury Project to develop

a suitable reentry structure.


&

7589

Bonner, Tom Adam L.

Gruen

5/7/86 Biographical information CS 90 min 6685

Bonney,

Walter T.

Unnamed

interviewer

8/31/70 Reel 1 tape 20006

Bonney,

Walter T.

Robert

Sherrod

4/2/73 Bids for the Astronauts stories Notes 1 pg. 13285 Telephone

interview

Boone, Adm.

Walter F.

Robert

Sherrod

3/18/70 Conflict between NASA and the Department of

Defense (DOD)


interview

Borman, Col.

Frank

Robert

Sherrod

12/3/71 Biographical information Notes 2 pgs 13285 Telephone

interview

Bossart,

Karel

John L. Sloop 4/27/74

&

4/29/74

Career, the thin-tank, balloon-tank, and stage-

and-a-half concept for Atlas

Transcript

&

CS

44 pgs

2 tapes

214

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Bourgin,

Simon

Robert

Sherrod

9/2/69 Bourgin travels with astronauts focusing on

Frank Borman

Notes 2 pgs 13285

Brackett,

Ernest

Robert

Sherrod

8/25/71 General Electric contract of 1962-63 Notes 1 pg. 13285

Brackett,

Ernest

Robert

Sherrod

4/1/71 General Electric contract of 1962-63 Notes 3 pgs 13285

Brandenstein,

Dan

I. Rodriguez 5/28/85 CS 2 tapes 20039

Brandenstein, Unnamed 3/1/85 CS 1 tape 20039


Interview

ed


Remarks

Dan interviewer

Brieglieb, Gus Richard P.

Hallion


Dr. Briggs Kim Gatlin Unknown

Date

CS 1 tape 20035

Brill, Colonel

J. R.


&

CS

86 pgs

&

3 tapes

6685

&

19998

Cassette #1 is

missing

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Brinkley,

Randy

& Joe Loftus

Unnamed

interviewer

4/22/99 CS 1 tape 20035

Brinkley,

Randy

Jeff Bingham 4/23/99 Space Station (ISS) policy issues; Space Station

and White House/ Congress; Hubble Space

Telescope (HST) repair mission; ISS and

international partners; value of Shuttle/Mir

program to ISS


Brooke,

Arthur A.


&

CS

46 pgs

Part of 4

tapes

6685

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Brown, B.

Porter

Ivan Ertel 5/25/66 Support requirements for Mercury, compared

to Gemini, anticipated req. for Apollo


Brown, Dr.

Harold

Not supplied 6/5/98 Brown’s role as Secretary of Defense during

Carter’s Administration; the NASA-DoD

relationship; the Space Shuttle and DoD

payloads


Bruning,

William

Courtney

Brooks

12/8/71 Grumman manufacturing manager for Apollo

Lunar Module (LM)


Brunk, Dr.

William E.

Robert

Sherrod

10/30/70 Astronomical (lunar) nomenclature Notes 4 pgs 13285

Bryant, Roy not supplied 4/2/76 Biographical information Notes 3 pgs 6685


Interview

ed


Remarks

Bulifant,

George

Unnamed

interviewer

6/15/67 Relations with military, community, Green

Cow to Mixen

Notes 2 pgs 273

Bullington,

Sue

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown Prosthesis wearer CS 1 tape 20035

Bumper 8 50th

Anniversary

Group

Interview

Roger

Launius, Lori

Walters, &

Stanley O.

Starr

7/24-

25/2000

Interviews with Robert Alley, Elizabeth Bain,

Herman Bank, Ed Belcher, Konrad

Dannenberg, Robert Droz, Norris Gray, Dick

Jones, and William Pickering

Transcripts

&

CD

&

VHS

10 CDs

&

8 tapes

17450

Bundy,

McGeorge

John Logsdon 10/4/67 Decision on Shepard flight postponement Transcript

&

Reel

4 pgs

&

Reel

253

&

12507

&

20000

Butler,

George V., et.

Al

Adam L.

Gruen

2/28/89

and

3/1/89

Interviews with George Butler, Dave Rensley,

Dave Riel, Fritz Runge, Robert Thompson,

Henry Wolbers re McDonnell Douglas and the

International Space Station (ISS)

Transcript

&

CS

297 pgs

&

1 tape

6691

&

20225

Butler,

Melvin

Walter

Bonney

3/29/73 Career in providing administrative support for

research


Caidin,

Martin

Keith Scala 1994 Sci-fi books and non-fiction aerospace books Transcript 7 pgs 277 Transcript

reprinted in

“Quest” magazine

Callaghan,

Richard

Robert

Sherrod

1/27/71 Apollo Program; dealings with contracts,

Johnson, Kennedy, and Seamans

Transcript

& CS

Reel

76 pgs

& 2 tapes

2 tapes

13285 &

20510 &

13291

2 copies; 1 is a

summary

Campbell,

Donald B.

Andrew

Butrica

12/7/93 Transcript Access restricted, see

Chief Archivist

Campbell,

Donald B.

Andrew

Butrica


Chief Archivist

Campbell,

Donald B.

Andrew

Butrica


Chief Archivist

Canright,

Richard

(R.B.)

John L. Sloop 3/7/74 Career, propulsion and reliability Transcript

&

CS

128 pgs

&

1 tape

286

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,


Interview

ed


Remarks

1945-1959”

Carlisle,

Richard

Adam Gruen 4/28/88 OAST, defining future technology needs and

opportunities for improvement

Transcript

&

CS

27 pgs

&

1 tape

290

&

20225

Carlisle,

Richard and

John Hodge

Sylvia Fries 3/4/85 Carlisle sat in on interview with Hodge – Space

Station Task Force

Transcript

&

CS

18 pgs

&

1 tape

290

&

20223

Carmichael,

Dr. Leonard

Arthur

Levine

8/23/60 Secretary of Smithsonian Institution, opinions

of NACA’s success

Notes 6 pgs 293

Carmichael,

R. P.


&

CS

19 pgs

&

Part of 4

tapes

6686

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Carpenter,

Scott

Unnamed

interviewer

3/28/83 Reel 1 tape 20006 Telephone

interview

Case, Mel and

Leonard

Shepherd

Ivan Ertel 4/4/72 Senior Design Engineer at ILC – Apollo

spacesuit


Cate, Ben Robert

Sherrod

7/18/72 Apollo program; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 2 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Centaur

History

Interviews

Virginia

Dawson &

Mark Bowles

1999-

2000

Interviews with Michael Benik, Robert Gray,

Grant Hansen, Seymour Himmel, Karl

Kachigan, Charles Kohlhase, Robert Kosar,

Hugh Laird, Donald Lesney, Roger Lynch,

Joseph Nieberding, William O'Neil, Larry Ross,

Lutha "Tom" Shaw, Andrew Stofan, James

Swavely, Vernon Weyers, Charles Wilson,

Edward Ziemba, and Arthur Zimmerman

Transcripts Various

lengths

18927 For book,

“Taming Liquid

Hydrogen: The

Centaur Upper

Stage Rocket”

Cepollina,

Frank

Steve J. Dick 5/2/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); Orbiting

Astronomical Observatory (OAO); early

experiences with servicing satellites; previous

HST servicing missions; robotic servicing

mission

Transcript

&

CS

28 pgs

&

2 tapes

19820

&

5484

Cesaro,

Richard S.


&

CS

62 pgs

&

1 tape

6686

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,


Interview

ed


Remarks

1945-1959”

Champine,

Robert

Richard

Hallion

11/11/71 XS-1, D-558-1, test flights in 1948 Transcript 9 pgs 311

Chang-Diaz,

Franklin

&

Van Hoffen,

James

Unnamed

interviewer

1/31/84 CS 1 tape 20035

Chang-Diaz,

Franklin

Unnamed

interviewer

8/5/84 Plasma Rocket, followed by interview in

Spanish

CS 1 tape 20035

Chang-Diaz,

Franklin

Unnamed

interviewer

Interview in Spanish CS 2 tapes 20035

Charlesworth,

Clifford E.

Peter

Vorzimmer,

James

Grimwood

12/13/66 Gemini flight operations; Gemini in-flight

malfunctions; rendezvous in Gemini


Decade is Out”

Charlesworth,

Clifford E.

Robert

Sherrod

3/2/70 Apollo 8 and 11 Notes 2 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Chenoweth,

Opie, and

Weldon

Worth


&

CS

102 pgs

&

3 tapes

6686

&

6691

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Chilton,

Robert G.

Loyd

Swenson

3/30/70 Spacecraft guidance and navigation; Mercury

program; Gemini program; Apollo program;

earth orbit rendezvous (EOR) vs. lunar orbit

rendezvous (LOR); spacecraft design


Decade is Out”

Clarke,

Walton

Unknown 4/16/76 Skylab Program Manager re: Skylab 1 damage

during launch


Clements,

Henry

William

Corliss and

James

Grimwood

11/16/66 Manned Spacecraft Center, Mercury, DOD

interface with NASA


Clifton, Maj.

Gen. C.V.

Robert

Sherrod

3/18-

19/70

Von Braun and Kennedy confrontation Notes 4 pgs 13286

Cohen, Aaron Loyd 1/14/70 Spacecraft guidance and navigation; Apollo Transcript 32 pgs 19522 For “Before This


Interview

ed


Remarks

Swenson program; Apollo lunar module (LM) radar;

spacecraft design; Apollo command module

(CM); relationship with NASA contractors;

safety; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; Joseph Shea;

MIT Draper Laboratory and Apollo guidance

Decade is Out”

Cohen, Aaron Robert

Sherrod

4/23/72 Manned Spacecraft Center; Apollo 16 Notes

& CS

& Reel

9 pgs

& 1 tape

& 1 tape

13286

& 20510

& 13291

Cohen,

Nathaniel B.

(recorded

memoirs)

5/23/94 Memoirs re: post-Challenger accident (STS-

51L) planning

CS 2 tapes 9727

Collin,

Everett E.

Rick Collin 8/92 “Spacemobile” Program and former Education

programs

Transcript 67 pgs 10213 Transcript of

videotape

Collins,

Michael

Robert

Sherrod

9/3/70 Apollo program Notes 3 pgs 13286

Collins,

Michael

Robert

Sherrod

12/20/71 Biographical information Notes 1 pg. 13286

Collins,

Michael

Robert

Sherrod

9/9/74 Apollo program and Life contract Notes 1 pg. 13286

Collins,

Michael

Mr.

Rosenbaum

4 and

5/83

Gemini and Apollo, shuttle, future programs

(Mars, space station)


Collins,

Michael

Michelle

Kelly and

Paul Rollins

10/8/97 Astronaut selection; astronaut training; Gemini

10 EVA; Apollo 8 flight; Apollo 11 flight;

Apollo 11 postflight activities

CD 2 CDs 20188 Transcript

available online at

JSC oral history

website

Commercial

Space Policy

of the 1980s

Oral History

Workshop

Woody Kay

(moderator)

11/1/99 Panel discussion with Mark Albrecht, James

Beggs, Martin Kress, James Muncy, James

Rose, Colonel Gilbert Rye, and Robert Walker

Transcript

&

Disc

&

CS

99 pgs

&

2 tapes

18928

Conover, Bob Adam L.

Gruen

8/26/86 Space Station History Project CS 90 min 6686

Conrad, Pete William

Barry

Furlong

No date

given


World Book

Encyclopedia


Interview

ed


Remarks

Science Service

Conrad, Pete Robert

Sherrod

4/15/70 Apollo 12 Notes 4 pgs 13286

& PDF

50156

Cook, Donald John Logsdon 10/5/67 Meetings to recommend to president the

direction of space program

Transcript

&

Reel

10 pgs 366

&

20000

Cooke, Doug Jeff Bingham 5/13/99 Space Shuttle ALT Program, Space Station

Freedom (SSF), SEI 90 Day Study Panel

(Stafford Synthesis Group), SSF budget issues,

SSF red team and blue team exercises, NASA

relationship with contractors, ISS Alpha,

Russia’s space program, Congressional

relations


Cooper,

Ralph S.

Robert

Sherrod

7/23/71

and

7/29/71

Senator Sparkman; “Columbus had Trouble

Too”; Columbus‘s exploration compared to

Space exploration.

Notes 4 pgs 13286

Coors, Joseph Donald R.

Baucom

7/31/87 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Transcript 15 pgs 16766

Cortright, Dr.

Edgar

R. Cargill

Hall &

Eugene

Emme

3/4/68 NASA-JPL relationship during Ranger Project;

Ranger spacecraft; naming the Ranger Project;

Ranger scientific experiments; Congressional

investigation into Ranger failures; Ranger

photographs


Cortright, Dr.

Edgar

Eugene

Emme

2/20/74 Early NASA history Transcript

&

CS

50 pgs

&

1 tape

13461 &

PDF

30017 &

19995

Coursen,

John

Courtney

Brooks

12/8/71 Ground support equipment for lunar module

during Apollo program


Covey,

Richard

&

Hauck, Rick

Unnamed

Interviewer

1/15/87 Astronaut interviews CS 1 tape 20035

Covington,

Clarke

Adam L.

Gruen


&

38 pgs

&

6686

&


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS 1 tape 20225

Covington,

Ozro M.

Robert

Sherrod

3/6/69 Tananarive; HF radio; communications for

Apollo 8 and 9

Notes 1 pg. 13286

Covington,

Ozro M.

Robert

Sherrod

1/22 and

30/70

Deep Space Network; communications for

Apollo 8


interview

Cox, John Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

47 pgs

&

1 tape

6686

&

20225

Craig, Jerry Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

59 pgs

&

1 tape

6686

&

20225

Creighton,

John

Unnamed

interviewer

3/1/85 CS 1 tape XII/C/4

Crippen,

Robert

Unknown

interviewer

5/83 STS-7 mission overview including crew,

satellites, repairs, medical experiments

Transcript

&

CS

17 pgs

&

1 tape

397

&

XII/C/4

Cronkite,

Walter

Robert

Sherrod

3/27/70 Apollo program Notes 4 pgs 13286

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Edward Ezell 5/5/75 International Rendezvous and Docking mission Transcript 18 pgs 410

Culbertson,

Philip E.

John Mauer 10/19/83 STS Program Transcript 30 pgs 410

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Sylvia Fries 4/8/85 Personal history, work at Corvair, Atlas, Rover,

Shuttle; NASA Engineers and the Age of Apollo

Transcript

& CS

& CD

14 pgs

& 1 tape

& 1 CD

410

&

20223

Culbertson,

Philip E., and

Robert

Freitag

Sylvia Fries,

Lee

Saegesser,

Howard

McCurdy

12/8/87 Biographical information CS 2 tapes 20223 For “NASA

Engineers and the

Age of Apollo”

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Sylvia Fries 3/27/86 NASA and ESA, US leadership or partnership;


Transcript

&

CS

29 pgs

&

1 tape

410

&

20223


Interview

ed


Remarks

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Sylvia Fries

&

Howard

McCurdy

3/11/88 Economic policy, Pathfinder Program,

artificial gravity

Transcript

&

CS

39 pgs

&

1 tape

410

&

20223

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Adam Gruen 2/9/88 Lou Evans Foundation, “man tended free flyer”

vs. space station – technology and budget;

Space Station History Project

Transcript

&

CS

65 pgs

&

1 tape

410 &

20225

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Sylvia Fries 11/7/85 Space Station change to twin keel; NASA

Engineers and the Age of Apollo

Transcript 7 pgs

410

For “NASA

Engineers and the

Age of Apollo”

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Sylvia Fries 7/11/85 basic configuration of space station Transcript

21 pgs

410

For “NASA

Engineers and the

Age of Apollo”

Culbertson,

Philip E.

Sylvia Fries 5/10/85 Space Station technological transparency Transcript 22 pgs

410

For “NASA

Engineers and the

Age of Apollo”

Cunningham,

Newton

Cargill Hall 3/6/68 Selection of launch vehicle; NASA center

responsibilities, Ranger program management


Cunningham,

Walt

Robert

Sherrod

3/4/71 Why was Schirra’s crew pulled off of AS-205 Notes 2 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Cunningham,

Walt

Robert

Sherrod

11/9/70 Biographical information Notes 1 pg. 13286 Telephone

interview

Dana, Bill not supplied 12/03/76 Biographical information Notes 5 pgs 6686

Daniels, Jr.,

James L.

Robert

Sherrod

10/29/73 Maxie Neubert?; James Lee Notes 2 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Dannenberg,

Konrad

Tom Ray 4/11/73 ABMA transfer to NASA, Saturn vehicles,

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

organization, program management


Darden,

William

Unamed

interviewer

9/1/60

9/2/60

Reel 1 tape 20003

Davis,

Richard

Unnamed

interviewer

8/20/75 design and construction of Skylab – Multiple

Docking Adapter


Day, Richard Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

63 pgs

&

2 tapes

6686

& 19996

Notes included

For “On the

Frontier”


Interview

ed


Remarks

Dean, James Nicole

Bucchino

(NASA HQ

History

Division

Intern)

6/20/08 Foundation of NASA art program; NASA

artists and MA-9 flight; value of painting vs

photography in chronicling NASA programs;

Lamar Dodd; NASA art program in the 1960s;

media attention in Gemini; media attention in

Apollo; interactions between artists and

engineers during Apollo; NASA artists and

Apollo 11; Norman Rockwell and Gemini 3

(GT-3) crew painting; and Bert Ulrich.


Debus, Dr.

Kurt

Unknown 1/20/83 Explorer 1; possibility of launching satellite

before the Soviet Union


Debus, Dr.

Kurt

Mr. Jones Transcrib

ed 6/12/73

Between launches of Skylab 1 and 2 Transcript 8 pgs 443 &

7589

Debus, Dr.

Kurt

Walter Sohier 3/31/64 visit of John F. Kennedy to Launch Operations

Center at Cape Canaveral, September 11, 1962

Transcript

&

Reel

15 pgs

&

1 tape

445

&

20000

Copyrighted by

JFK Library

DeFrance,

Smith J.

Walter

Bonney

9/23/74 Biographical info - NACA 1922, wind tunnel,

supersonic tunnel, P-63


Dembling, Dr.

Paul G.

Eugene

Emme

8/2/73 Legislation for creation of NASA, selection of T.

Keith Glennan as first NASA Administrator

Transcript

37 pgs

452

Dembling,

Paul G.

Robert

Sherrod

1/22/69 James Webb; Selection of the Houston site Notes 4 pgs 13286

Dembling,

Paul G.

Robert

Sherrod

3/27/69 Naming of Cape Kennedy, Joe Shea, and Apollo

1 (AS-204) fire

Notes 3 pgs 13286

Dembling,

Paul G.

Robert

Sherrod

7/24/69 James Webb Notes 1 pg. 13286

Dembling,

Paul G.

Robert

Sherrod

1/26/72 Space Act of 1958; Formation of NASA Notes 2 pgs 13286 Letter- not

interview

Dembling,

Paul G.

Robert

Sherrod

3/21/73 Congressional politics and NASA – 1961

Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) site survey

team

Notes 1 pg. 13286

Dembling,

Paul G.

David S.

Schuman and

Gregory C.

LaRosa

7/25/02 Dembling’s role as primary author of the

NASA Space Act



Interview

ed


Remarks

Dembrow,

Daniel

J.D. Hunley 4/26/95 1942-70s, solid propellant rockets, Delta launch

vehicle, case bonding

Transcript

&

VHS

&

CS

55 pgs

&

1 tape

&

3 tapes

11618

&

20035

Dempsey,

James R.

Walter

Bonney

11/1/71 Deputy Chief of Staff for Development, General

Saville, NACA


Der Bing,

William

Various 1/2/70 Apollo 11 post-flight world tour; Michael

Collins; Buzz Aldrin; Neil Armstrong


Decade is Out”

DeVicenzi,

Donald

Unnamed

interviewer

2/86 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) CS 1 tape 20035

Dick, Dr.

Steven J.

Dr. Thomas

C. Corbin

10/16/03 Biographical information Transcript 48 pgs 18283

Diehl, Capt.

Walter S.

Michael

Keller

9/12/67 Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory

(LMAL), NACA and Navy cooperation,

aeronautical research

Transcript

&

Reel

36 pgs

&

2 tapes

467

&

20000

Dietlein,

Lawrence

John A. Pitts 8/19/80 medical aspects of manned space flight and Life

Sciences Division at Johnson Space Center; Life

Sciences

Transcript

&

CS

14 pgs

&

1 tape

468

&

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Dietz, R. H. Ed Ezell 6/6/75 Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), ASTP Flight

Readiness Review (FRR) at Baikonur


Disher, John

H.

Linton Wells 7/7/63 Interview for Storer Broadcasting Co. “Report

to the People” for Broadcast Sun

Reel 1 tape 20006

Disher, John

H. Peter

Hackes?

Mid

1964? Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

Disher, John

H.

Robert

Sherrod


Disher, John

H.

Robert

Sherrod

9/24/70 George Mueller role in landing on the moon Notes 2 pgs 13286

Disher, John

H.

Robert

Sherrod

4/15/71 Skylab Notes 2 pgs 13286

Disher, John

H.

Robert

Sherrod

6/14/72 Abe Silverstein and Lewis’s interest in the

lunar module

Notes 1 pg 13286

Disher, John

H.

Unnamed

interviewer

11/20/72 Reel 1 tape 20006


Interview

ed


Remarks

Disher, John

H.

Ivan Ertel 1/27/67 Development of Apollo Program, management,

contracts, Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR)


Disher, John

H.

Tom Ray 4/29/71 Skylab safety and rescue Transcript 31 pgs 471

Dixon, T.F. Sloop, John

L.

8/14/73 CS 1 tape 19489

Donlan,

Charles J.

Unnamed

interviewer

1/15/68 Reel 1 tape 20000

Donlan,

Charles J.

John Logsdon 8/28/70 Apollo program planning, astronaut selection,

plans for Space Shuttle

Transcript

&

Reel

27 pgs

&

1 tape

481

&

20002

440 to 1200 feet

on Homer Newell

tape

Donlan,

Charles J.

John Mauer 10/19/83 Space Shuttle Program Transcript 66 pgs 481

Donlan,

Charles J.

Adam L.

Gruen

4/26/85 CS 1 tape 20225

Donlan,

Charles J.

Andrew

Chaikin

11/15/97 Mercury Program personalities, Mercury

astronaut selection; early space flight as a

reality; Space Task Group (STG); Manned

Orbiting Research Laboratory (MORL); long-

term space plans in early 1970s; risk in human

spaceflight; congressional and DOD relations

with NASA; Space Shuttle design; Pratt-

Whitney orbiter contract; Viking and Mars

Pathfinder

Transcript

&

CS

38 pgs

&

180 mins

18932

Donnelly,

Paul

Mr. Jones Tran

scribed

6/12/73

Skylab 1 and 2 launches Transcript 10 pgs 489

&

7589

Doolittle,

James

Eugene

Emme and

William

Putnam

4/21/69 Post-WWII aeronautical, rocket, and aircraft

engine research, funding, space policy,

transition from NACA to NASA

Transcript

&

Reel

53 pgs

&

1 tape

493

&

20006

Doolittle,

James

Arthur

Marmor

6/65 Biographical information Transcript 34 pgs 492

Douglass, Dr.

Howard


&

51 pgs

&

6686

&


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS 1 tape 19489

Dowd, John

F.

Robert

Sherrod

1/10/73 Astronaut contracts; Apollo program; James

Webb

Transcript

& CS

Reel

9 pgs 13286 &

20510

& 13291

Dowd, John

F.

Robert

Sherrod

11/6/72 Life contract Notes 2 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Downs,

George S.

Andrew

Butrica

10/4/94 Transcript Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Doyle,

William

Lawler

John L.

Sloop


&

CS

41 pgs

&

Part of 2

tapes

6686

&

19998

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Drake,

Hubert

J. D. Hunley 4/16/97 X-15, beginning of Apollo Program, lunar orbit

rendezvous (LOR); Lunar Landing Research

Vehicle (LLRV); Dryden Flight Research

Center (DFRC) and the Apollo program


Draper, Dr.

Charles Stark

Robert

Sherrod

3/11/71 Webb and Draper’s relationship Notes 1 pg. 13286

Draper, Dr.

Charles Stark

Robert

Sherrod

5/17/71 Involvement with the space program, Webb

and Apollo

Transcript

& Notes

& CS

Reel

CD

18 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape &

1 CD

13286 &

20510 &

13291 &

20188

Draper, Dr.

Charles Stark

Stuart Harris 5/29/79 Development of spacecraft navigation and

guidance systems


BBC

Draper, Dr.

Charles Stark

Self 10/31/64 Memoir – includes Evolution of Aerospace

Guidance Technology at MIT 1935-1951


Dryden, Dr.

Hugh L.

Eugene

Emme; C.

Alexander; J.

Grimwood;

L. Swenson

8/31/65 Mercury Project Transcript

&

CD

87 pgs

&

2 CDs

2991

&

20188

For “This New

Ocean”

Dryden, Dr.

Hugh L.

Arthur

Levine

8/24/60 Success of the NACA Notes

&

Reel

10 pgs

&

2 tapes

2990

&

20000


Interview

ed


Remarks

Dryden, Dr.

Hugh L.

Unnamed

interviewer

8/16/60 Success of the NACA Transcript 5 pgs 2990 May be Bonney

interview

Dryden, Dr.

Hugh L.

Unnamed

interviewer

5/22/61 Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

Dryden, Dr.

Hugh L.

Eugene

Emme; J.

Grimwood; L.

Swenson

9/1/65 Test pilots and astronauts, Mercury, Kennedy

Administration, President’s Scientific Advisory

Council (PSAC), Wiesner report

Transcript 10 pgs 2991 Excerpt of

interview

Dryden, Dr.

Hugh L.

Walter Sohier 3/26/64 Eisenhower-Kennedy transition; Mercury

Project; proposal for manned lunar landing

and decision to go to the moon; Pres. Kennedy’s

proposal for joint US-USSR manned lunar

landing

Transcript

&

Reel

31 pgs

&

2 tapes

2992

&

20000

Copyrighted by

JFK Library

Duberg, John Walter

Bonney

3/28/73 NACA/NASA career – Loads Division, Comet,

DC-3


DuBridge,

Lee

R. Cargill

Hall

2/11/74 Transcript 22 pgs 512 For JPL History

Duke, Charles

M. Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

2/22/72 Biographical Information Notes 1 pg. 13286

Duke, Charles

M. Jr.

Doug Ward 3/12/99 Astronaut selection; astronaut training; Apollo

12 lightning strike; relationship between crew

and mission control; role as Apollo 11

CAPCOM; Apollo 13 and measles; Apollo 13

accident; Apollo 16 flight; lunar rover; Apollo

Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP);

future of human space flight; space medicine;

resignation from NASA

Transcript

&

3 CDs

60 pgs

&

123 min

19524 For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Duke, Dr.

Michael

Robert

Sherrod

7/27/72 “What we found on the Moon”; What was

found on the Moon?

CS

Reel

&

Transcript

1 tape

1 hour

&

11 pgs

20510 &

132929 &

13286

Dumbacher,

Dan

Andrew

Butrica

10/6/97 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Dunnam, John L. Sloop 6/6/74 Biographical information Transcript 35 pgs 6686 For “Liquid


Interview

ed


Remarks

Blackwell C. &

CS

&

Part of 4

tapes

& XII/C/4

19998

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Dyce, Rolf B. Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Eaker, Ira C. Walter

Bonney

2/11/74 Career with Army, Air Force, NACA, 1918 to

1944

Transcript 27 pgs 1/5/4

532

Earls, Julian Rebecca

Wright

2/22/06 &

2/23/06

Career with NASA, racial issues, Columbia

shuttle disaster, NASA’s nuclear program

Transcripts

&

CDs

67 pgs

59 pgs

I/I/4

19827

Early History

of NASA

Interviews

Cassettes

Eugene

Emme, James

Grimwood, &

Alex Roland

1973-

1976

Interviews with John Becker, John F. Clark,

Edgar Cortright, Charles Stark Draper, Max

Faget, Arnold Frutkin, Eilene Galloway, Robert

Gilruth, T. Keith Glennan, Andrew

Goodpaster, Victor Gordon, Bryce Harlow,

Richard Horner, Harris Hull, Leonard Jaffe,

Vincent Johnson, Edward Kerrigan, James

Killian, Heinz H. Koelle, Christopher Kraft, Jr.,

Bruce Lundin, Edward Purcell, J. Lee

Westrate, Willis Shapley, Abe Silverstein,

Nelson Spencer, Robert Spencer, William

Stroud, Ernst Stuhlinger, Adelbert Tischler,

Floyd Thompson, Harold Urey, James Webb,

Jerome Wiesner, Glen Wilson, Demarquis D.

Wyatt, Herbert York, and Raymond Zavasky

CS 44 tapes XII/C/4

19995

Early History

of NASA

Interviews

Transcripts

A - Ho

Eugene

Emme, James

Grimwood

and Alex

Roland

1973-

1976

Interviews with John Becker, Edgar Cortright,

Paul Dembling, Alan Dean, Charles Stark

Draper, Max Faget, Arnold Frutkin, Eilene

Galloway, Robert Gilruth, Andrew Goodpaster,

Eldon Hall, Bryce Harlow and Richard Horner

re National Advisory Committee for

Aeronautics (NACA); Langley Research Center

(LaRC); Office of Space Sciences (OSS);

National Aeronatics and Space Act of 1958;

Bureau of the Budget (BoB); Apollo guidance

Transcripts various I/J/2

13458


Interview

ed


Remarks

system; spacecraft design; Advanced Research

Projects Agency (ARPA); International

Geophysical Year (IGY); Sputnik satellites;

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); tracking

stations; Project Mercury; Presidential Science

Advisory Committee (PSAC); space policy;

President Kennedy’s views on space program;

Lewis Research Center (LeRC); liquid

propulsion rocket engines; President

Eisenhower’s views on space program; and

aeronautics

Early History

of NASA

Interviews

Transcripts

J - Si

Eugene

Emme, James

Grimwood

and Alex

Roland

1973-

1976

Interviews with Leonard Jaffe, Vincent

Johnson, James Killian, Heinz H. Koelle,

Eugene Konecci, Chris Kraft, Bruce Lundin,

George Miller, Franklyn Phillips, Robert

Piland, Edward Purcell, Albert Siepert, and

Abe Silverstein re communications satellites;

the COMSAT Corporation; Scout launch

vehicles; Delta launch vehicles; space policy;

President's Scientific Advisory Committee

(PSAC); President Eisenhower's views on the

space program; Juno launch vehicles; Titan

launch vehicles; solar power; Johnson Space

Center (JSC); Lewis Research Center (LeRC);

Lundin Committee; NASA space science

programs; Congressional relations; Space Task

Group (STG); Apollo program; National

Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA Office

of Business Administration; National Advisory

Committee for Aeronautics (NACA); and

Project Mercury.

Transcripts various 13459

Early History

of NASA

Interviews

Transcripts

Sp - Z

Eugene

Emme, James

Grimwood

and Alex

Roland

1973-

1976

Interviews with Nelson Spencer, William

Stroud, Ernst Stuhlinger, Floyd Thompson,

Adelbert Tischler, Harold Urey, James E.

Webb, Jerome Wiesner, Glen Wilson,

DeMarquis D. Wyatt, and Raymond Zavasky re

Rocket and Satellite Research Panel (RSRP);

Transcripts Various 13460


Interview

ed


Remarks

V-2 launch vehicle; Manhattan Project;

International Geophysical Year (IGY); US

Army Signal Corps; Vanguard satellite and

launch vehicle program; TIROS satellites;

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC);

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

(NACA); Project Mercury; Office of Space

Flight Development (OSFD); F-1 engine;

Saturn launch vehicles; Nova launch vehicle; J-

2 engine; interagency cooperation; Apollo 1

(AS-204) fire and investigation; North

American Aviation Rocketdyne division;

contract management; propulsion research at

Lewis Research Center (LeRC); Apollo lunar

landings; lunar samples; McDonnell Aircraft

Corporation; Bureau of the Budget (BoB);

James Webb’s role as NASA administrator;

Soviet space program; Presidential Science

Advisory Committee (PSAC) and its

interactions with NASA; space policy; wind

tunnels; organizing the transition from NACA

to NASA; Apollo program costs; Gemini

program costs; NASA budget; Space Task

Group (STG) and Project Mercury; and Stever

Committee

Earth System

Science at 20

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

& Rebecca

Wright

2009-

2010

Interviews with Matthew Abbott, Eric Barron,

Dixon Butler, Jack Kaye, Michael Luther,

Berrien Moore, Byron Tapley, Shelby Tilford,

and Diane Wickland

Transcripts various

lengths

Online See

http://www.jsc.na

sa.gov/history/oral

_histories/ess.htm

for transcripts

Easter, Bob Adam L.

Gruen

8/27/86 Space Station History Project CS 90 min 6686

Edelson,

Robert

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

48 pgs

&

1 tape

6686 &

2022

5

Educator Susan 2003 Interviews with Leah Bug-Townsend, Notes Various APF Some transcripts

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/ess.htm




Interview

ed


Remarks

Astronaut

History

Interviews

Rosenfeld Marchelle (“Shelley”) Canright, Richard

Cooper, Susan Cotter, Leticia Hawkins, Connie

Hollingsworth, Christine Johnson, Chan Kim,

Michael Kincaid, Alan Ladwig, Leland Melvin,

Nitan Naik, Dawn Oliver, Frank Owens, Robert

Starr, and Erika Vick. Interviews on the

Educator Astronaut program; astronaut

selection; EA application process

&

CS

lengths

&

19 tapes

19749

&

APF

19763

and partial

transcripts

available in EA

collection

electronic files on

shared drive

Eggers, A.J. Eugene

Emme

11/69 “Reflections on Apollo” Reel 1 tape 20006

Ehl, James Unnamed

interviewer

Transcrib

ed 6/12/73

Development of SEVA sail for Skylab at

Huntsville Operations Support Center before

Skylab 2 Launch


&

7589

Ehricke, Dr.

Krafft

John Sloop 4/26/74 Liquid hydrogen engines, nuclear propulsion

research, Operation Paperclip, Dyna-Soar

project, Atlas launch vehicle, lunar colonies

Transcript

&

CS

90 pgs

&

1 tape

10976

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Ehrlichman,

John

John Logsdon 5/6/83 The Nixon Administration and the space shuttle

decision process


Eisenhower,

Dwight D.

Constance

McL. Green

and Eugene

Emme

11/1/66 Evolution of IGY satellite program, reaction to

Sputnik, creation of NASA and early NASA

operations during Eisenhower Administration

Notes 16 pgs 12371

Ek, Matt C.,

et. al.

John L. Sloop 4/24/74 Biographical information for Ek, Stanley Gunn,

J.R. Hale, Henry Wieseneck, Wilbur Wilhelm –

Likely taken for “Liquid Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959” but not cited

Transcript

&

CS

91 pgs

&

3 tapes

6686

&

19999

Elachi,

Charles

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

date

Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) CS 1 tape 20035

Elms, James Robert

Sherrod

10/24/73 Joseph Shea Notes 2 pgs 13286

Elms, James Robert

Sherrod

12/4/69 Biographical Information Notes 2 pgs 13286

Elms, James Robert

Sherrod

5/17/71 “real giants’ in Aviation and space Notes 2 pgs 13286


Interview

ed


Remarks

Elverum,

Gerald W. Jr.

Mr. Brooks 7/21/70 Apollo history – designing throttling liquid

rocket engine, development of lunar excursion

module descent engine, impact of Apollo on

space program


Emme,

Eugene

Robert

Sherrod

4/1/69 Apollo 1 fire (AS-204); MA-9; Eisenhower;

MA-10


interview

Emme,

Eugene

Robert

Sherrod

11/3/69 Frank Borman; Tom Paine; Barry Goldwater Notes 1 pg. 13286

Emme,

Eugene

Robert

Sherrod

6/17/71 Pope Pius’s Prayer for Apollo 11 Astronauts Notes 1 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Emme,

Eugene

Robert

Sherrod

2/16/71 X-15; Apollo 1 fire (AS-204); Saturn V; North

American Aviation


interview

Emme,

Eugene

Robert

Sherrod

2/11/70 Fiscal year 1964 Notes 1 pg. 13286

Emme,

Eugene

Robert

Sherrod

2/2/70 Webb and Seamans’ falling out; Hugh Dryden Notes 2 pgs 13286 Telephone

interview

Enevoldson,

Einar

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

30 pgs

&

1 tape

6686

&

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

English,

Robert

Virginia

Dawson

7/11/86 Jet propulsion 1942-on, turbines and jet

engines, space power – Brayton and Rankine

cycles, nuclear, OAST program

Transcript

29 pgs

577

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Equal

Employment

Opportunity

(EEO)

Interviews

Aaron

Gillette

1992 Interviews with Jerri Bell, Gloria Champine,

Emogene Grenville, Katherine Johnson,

Nathaniel Pilate, Ernie Reyes, Linda Rogers,

and Eleanor Wynne re Equal Employment

Opportunity (EEO); women and minorities at

Kennedy Space Center (KSC); culture of KSC

during early space program; women and

minorities at Langley Research Center (LaRC);

NASA culture in the 1960s; women computers;

Apollo program; and Space Shuttle payloads

Transcripts

&

CS

Various

lengths

&

8 tapes

18898

Estess, Roy Henry C.

Dethloff

6/18/91 Air Force career; Mississippi Test Facility

(MTF); National Space Technology

Laboratories (NSTL); name change of NSTL to

Stennis Space Center (SSC); role as director of

Transcript

&

CDs

34 pages

&

2 CDs

18934


Interview

ed


Remarks

SSC

Estess, Roy Mack

Herring &

Myron Webb

7/7/95 Stennis Space Center (SSC); Space Shuttle

Main Engine (SSME); competition with

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); Zero

Base Study and National Propulsion Testing

Alliance; role as director of SSC

Transcript

&

CDs

30 pages

&

2 CDs

18935

Evans, Janet

M.

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

8/7/03 On moving to and living in Houston; being the

wife of military aviator and astronaut Ron E.

Evans; Apollo 1; Apollo 13; the NASA

community in Houston; and social activities of

astronauts and their wives

Transcript 30 pgs. 596

Evans,

Llewellyn J.

Robert

Sherrod

10/5/70 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 1 pg. 13286

Everet, John Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

date

CS 1 tape 20035

Evvard, Dr.

John S.

Virginia

Dawson

6/14/87 Study group on Puckett’s Theory of Supersonic

Aerodynamics, “From Mach 4 to Infinity”

course, electron bombardment

Transcript 25 pgs 599 For “Engines and

Innovations”

Exobiology

Interviews

James Strick 1993 &

1997-

2002

Interviews with Thomas Brock, Erwin

Chargaff, William Day, David Deamer, Donald

DeVincenzi, Sidney Fox, Everett Gibson,

Norman H. Horowitz, Harold P. Klein, Keith A.

Krenvolden, Antonio Lazcano, Joshua

Lederberg, Gilbert V. Levin, James E.

Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Stanley L. Miller,

Juan Oro, John D. Rummel, and William

Stillwell. Notes and correspondence with James

Kasting, Bill Schopf, David M. Raup, Carl R.

Woese, Hyman Hartman, Graham Cairns-

Smith, Alan Schwartz, John Cronin, Imre

Friedmann, Rivers Singleton

Transcripts

&

Notes

Various

lengths

18108

Exobiology

Interviews

Steve Dick 1997 Interviews with Glenn Carle, Sherwood Chang,

David DesMarais, Donald DeVincenzi, John

Farmer, Imre Friedmann, Lynn Harper,

Lawrence Hochstein, John Kerridge, Bishun

Khare, Harold P. Klein, Christopher McKay,

Transcripts

&

CS

Various

lengths

&

23 tapes

19505


Interview

ed


Remarks

David McKay, Michael Meyer, David

Morrison, Yvonne Pendleton, Thomas Pierson,

Christopher Romanek, and John Rummel re

exobiology; Ames Research Center (ARC)

Exobiology Division; Voyager and Viking

work; Astrobiology Institute; biographical

information; SETI; lunar samples; Claus-Nagy;

Murchison meteorite; astrobiology; early

Earth’s atmosphere; planetary biology;

astrobiology at ARC; Mars; Mars mission

strategies; microorganisms in Antarctic rocks;

Dudley Observatory; meteorites; molecular

spectroscopy; Carl Sagan; planetary

atmospheres; life on Mars; Mars 2001 mission;

SEM petrography; exobiology experiments;

NASA and SETI; and closed environment life

support systems

Fabian, John

M.

Interviewer

unnamed

5/83 Pre-STS 7 Mission interview Transcript 9 pgs 601

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Adam Gruen 11/11/87 Background of Spaceborne Imaging Radar

(SIR), work after NASA at EAGLE

Transcript

&

CS

60 pgs

&

1 tape

603

&

20225

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Ivan Ertel 12/15/69 Mercury, Saturn, Gemini, Apollo programs Transcript 17 pgs 603

&

7589

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Mr. Jones 6/12/73 Skylab 1 accident, planning and rescue,

deployment of Standup Extravehicular Activity

(SEVA) sail


&

7589

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Eugene

Emme and

James

Grimwood

8/20/73 career with NASA and NACA, Redstone and

Atlas launch vehicles, ARPA, ABMA, ARDC,

and MSC

Transcript

60 pgs

603 For “Early

History of NASA”

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Dick Hallion 3/22/79 X15 and X20 Dyna-Soar projects, Space Shuttle

program


Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Adam Gruen 6/27/85 CS 1 tape 20225


Interview

ed


Remarks

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Robert B.

Merrifield

10/16/67 Mercury program; Space Task Group (STG);

NASA organization; Gemini program; Apollo

program; Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC);

White Sands Test Facility (WSTF); spacecraft

design; Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

and MSC overlap in responsibilities

Transcript 26 pages 19525 For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Interviewer

unnamed

10/16/67 Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo program history Transcript 6 pgs 603 Interview is in

first person

Faget, Dr.

Maxime A.

Jim Slade 6/18-

19/97

NACA Pilotless Aircraft Research Division

(PARD); spacecraft design; Mercury program;

influence of X-15 on spacecraft design; Atlas

launch vehicle and Mercury program; escape

rockets; MR-1 flight; Soyuz T-10-1 flight;

Mercury 7 astronauts; Liberty Bell 7 (MR-4)

flight; Gemini program; Space Task Group

(STG); Gemini spacecraft; Apollo program;

lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR); lunar module

(LM); Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and Apollo

command module (CM) redesign; Space Shuttle

design; Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters

(SRBs); Challenger (STS-51L) accident

Transcript

&

CDs

94 pgs

&

4 CDs

19525 For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Farley, Clare Robert

Sherrod

2/10/72 Apollo 8 selection decision Notes 1 pg. 13286

Dr. Farquhar Unnamed

Interviewer

9/15/86 CS 1 tape 20035

Feld, David Courtney

Brooks

12/2/71 Apollo Lunar Module (LM) ascent engine

project


Feynman,

Richard

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

CS 2 tapes

Field, Dr.

George

Brooks

Richard

Hirsh

7/14-

15/80

Transcript Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Field, J.

Pemble Jr.

W. David

Compton


see Chief

Archivist

Finch, Richard P. 12/8/76 Biographical information Transcript 138 pgs 6686


Interview

ed


Remarks

Thomas Hallion &

CS

&

8 tapes

&

19996

Finger,

Harold

Eugene

Emme and

W.D. Putnam

4/16/69 NASA/Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

nuclear propulsion program, NASA

reorganization, 1967-68

Transcript

&

Reel

37 pgs

&

1 tape

642

&

20006

Finger,

Harold

Kevin Rusnak 5/16/02 Finger’s NASA career Transcript

&

CDs

66 pgs

&

3 CDs

18108

Finn, Terence Sylvia Fries 7/18/75 Space Station planning Transcript 48 pgs 659

Finn, Terence

T.

Sylvia Fries 6/12/85 Background, Space Station planning within and

outside NASA; Space Station Task Force

Transcript

&

CS

27 pgs

&

1 tape

659

&

20223

Finn, Terence

T.

Sylvia Fries 7/10/85 Space Station Task Force (SSTF), NASA Space

Station Freedom (SSF) program

Transcript

&

CS

48 pgs

&

1 tape

659

&

20223

Fiscell,

Robert

Unnamed

interviewer


Fletcher, Dr.

James C.

Robert

Sherrod

12/27/72 Assignment of Harrison Schmitt to Apollo 17

crew; biomedical research and astronauts

health; crew selection for ASTP; ASTP

negotiations; orange lunar soil sample; Apollo

15, 16, and 17 missions; Apollo 15 stamp

scandal; space shuttle decision and letting of a

contract for the orbiter; NASA budget cuts

Transcript

&

CS

&

Reel

35 pgs

&

1 tape

&

1 ¼ Hrs

4233 &

20510

&

13292

2 copies

Fletcher, Dr.

James C.

Unnamed

interviewer

12/3/74 Speech: “Progress Report on the NASA Space

Program for the Seventies” before the Town

Hall General Luncheon, Los Angeles,

California. Interview and question and answer

period with Fletcher broadcast on the radio

program “Town Hall on the Air”.

CS 1 tape 20035

Fletcher, Dr.

James C.

John Logsdon 9/21/77 The Nixon Administration and the space shuttle

decision process

Transcript 44 pgs. 7915

Fletcher, Dr.

James C.

Roger

Launius

9/19/91 Space Shuttle Decision Transcript 27 pgs 16889


Interview

ed


Remarks

Flickinger,

Gen.; Hugh

Dryden, Gen.

Anderson,

Wernher Von

Braun

John

Secondari

Birth of US space program, transfer of ABMA

to NASA, development of manned and

unmanned spacecraft to go to moon, estimated

cost of Mercury Project, ICBM

Transcript 17 pgs

Missing

page 1

1971

Flickinger,

Donald

John A. Pitts 10/18/79 Biomedical research; MSP; Air R&D

Command

Transcript 12 pgs 704 For “The Human

Factor”

Floyd, J. C. Harold

Wallace

4/19/94 Biographical information CS 1 tape 19973 Two copies

For “Wallops

Station and the

Creation of an

American Space

Program”

Forest, Casey Ivan Ertel 6/9/71 Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV);

Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV);

astronaut training


Decade is Out”

Foulois,

Benjamin D.

Arthur

Levine

8/23/60 Cooperation between US Army Air Corps and

NACA


Francois,

Stephen M.

Rebecca

Wright

7/22/08 Kennedy Space Center (KSC) engineer training

program; Titan Centaur launch vehicle;

Expendable Launch Vehicles (ELV) program;

effect of Shuttle on ELV program; transition

from government to commercial launch

vehicles; Shuttle Centaur; effect of Challenger

accident on ELV program; Shuttle payload

integration; Space Station Processing Facility

(SSPF); International Space Station (ISS)

payload integration; ELV launch scheduling

Transcript

&

CDs

58 pgs

&

2 CDs

19859

Frank, M.P.

“Pete”

Unknown 8/97 Gemini Program; trajectory analysis; Apollo

lunar mission trajectories; reentry; role as

flight director during Apollo program; Apollo

Soyuz Test Project (ASTP); role as chief of

Flight Control Division


Frankle,

Edward A.

Sandra

Johnson

11/18/03 Role as Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Chief Counsel; role as NASA General Counsel;

Transcript

&

81 pages

&

18937


Interview

ed


Remarks

legal aspects of Challenger (STS-51L) accident;

space commercialization; Shuttle/Mir; ISS;

TDRS; intellectual property; outer space law

CDs 3 CDs

Freitag,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

6/11/69 Party at the White House when the Apollo 1

(AS-204) fire occurred


interview

Freitag,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

2/18/70 Apollo 8 (C-prime) flight Notes 1 pg. 13286 Telephone

interview

Freitag,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod


Freitag,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

11/4/69 President Nixon; Frank Borman; George

Mueller

Notes 3 pgs 13286

Freitag,

Robert

Interviewer

unnamed

5/19/70 Apollo engineering overview Transcript 16 pgs 10989

Freitag,

Robert

Sloop, John

L.

8/14/73 CS 1 tape 19489

Freitag,

Robert

Sylvia Fries 7/12/85 V-2 rockets, missiles, Cape Canaveral, ABMA

and Hurricane Camille disaster relief

Transcript

20 pgs

10989 For “NASA

Engineers and the

Age of Apollo”

Freitag,

Robert

Adam Gruen 3/22/89 Space station program, design and support

from Carter and Reagan administrations

Transcript

&

CS

74 pgs

&

1 tape

10989

&

20225

Fries, Dr.

Sylvia

Cindy Buck 5/23/88 Position as NASA chief historian, neglected

stories, current issues to become key historical

issues


Frosch, Dr.

Robert A.

Unnamed

interviewer

10/18/77 Year end review and 1978 Projection Transcript

&

CS

13 pgs

&

1 tape

4195

&

20035

Frosch, Dr.

Robert A.

Anthony

Prisendorf

2/1/78 WNEW TV – UFO CS 1 tape 20035 Copyrighted

Frosch, Dr.

Robert A.

Unnamed

interviewer

2/3/78 CS 1 tape 20035 Copyrighted by

CBS

Frosch, Dr.

Robert A.

Unnamed

interviewer

9/25/78 Year End Interview CS 2 tapes 20035 Two copies

Frosch, Dr.

Robert A.

Unnamed

interviewer

10/7/80 1980 accomplishments in space sciences, space

shuttle program, Landsat satellites, tracking,



Interview

ed


Remarks

Tilt-Rotor Aircraft, Aircraft Energy Efficiency

Program, and technology spinoffs

Frosch, Dr.

Robert A.

David

DeVorkin

7/10/81,

7/23/81,

9/15/81,

& 10/6/81

Biographical data; career as a physicist; career

with the Navy and the Advanced Research

Projects Agency (ARPA); role as NASA

administrator; certifying the Space Shuttle for

flight; Space Shuttle design; Congressional

relations; NASA budget; planetary programs;

NASA organization; relationships with NASA

centers; space policy


&

18999

Frutkin,

Arnold W.

Scott, Willard 1964 “The Space Story”, NASA program No. 13 on

international cooperation

Reel 1 tape 20006

Frutkin,

Arnold W.

Ed Ezell 5/5/75 initial plans for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

(ASTP), international cooperation, public

affairs for ASTP


Frutkin,

Arnold W.

John Logsdon 7/30/70 post-Apollo planning, aerospace management Transcript

&

Reel

22 pgs

&

1 tape

728

&

20008

Side 2 of Von

Braun tape

Frutkin,

Arnold W.

Robert

Sherrod

7/11/72 Gemini IV astronauts post-flight trip; Queen

Fredrika incident; James Webb; Apollo

Program

Notes

Reel

&

CS

11 pgs

&

1 tape

20510 &

13292

13286

Frutkin,

Arnold W.

Rebecca

Wright

1/11/02 International Geophysical Year (IGY); role as

director of Office of International Programs;

international cooperation; relationship with the

State Department; Satellite Instructional

Television Experiment (SITE); tracking

stations; NASA and the United Nations (UN);

US – Soviet cooperation; Apollo Soyuz Test

Project (ASTP)

Transcript

&

CDs

&

Disk

57 pages

&

3 CDs

18939

Frutkin,

Arnold W.

Rebecca

Wright

3/8/02 International negotiations, Spacelab, launch

technology, Japan, France, INTELSAT, India,

China, Canada, ARM, Soviet Union,

relationship with administrators

Transcript

&

CDs

& Disk

30 pages

&

2 CDs

18939

Fulton, James

G.

Robert

Sherrod

9/15-

16/69

George Mueller; James Webb confrontation;

House committee on space

Notes 2 pgs 13286


Interview

ed


Remarks

Fulton, James

G.

John Logsdon 8/13/70 Reel 215-455

feet

20002 On Homer Newell

tape

Galloway,

Eilene

J.D. Hunley 2/12 and

7/1/93 or

6/23/??

Career – consultant to Senate Comm. On

Aeronautical and Space Sciences,

Establishment of NASA and its mission, UN

Comm. On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Transcript

&

CS

76 pgs

&

2 tapes

11689

&

20035

Garbor, Ed Unnamed

Interviewer

9/10/86 ATP – Advanced Turbo Prop. CS 1 tape 20035

Gardner,

Colonel

Alfred J.


&

CS

44 pgs

&

1 tape

6687

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Garman, Jack Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

45 pgs

&

1 tape

6687

&

20225

Garn, Senator

Jake

Unknown 5/18/00 White House – Congressional relations;

Endeavor orbiter; federal budget; Space

Station Freedom; Challenger (STS-51L)

accident; Space Exploration Initiative (SEI);

United Space Alliance (USA); NASA –

Congressional relations; International Space

Station (ISS)

Transcript

&

CS

43 pgs

&

90 mins

18940

Garrick,

Edward

Walter

Bonney

3/27/73 Career with NACA; aerodynamic studies at

Langley


Gehrig,

James J.

Robert

Sherrod

4/24/70 Walter Mondale’s anger directed toward

NASA; Phillips Report

Notes 4 pgs 13286

Gehrig,

James J.

Robert

Sherrod

1/9/73 Senate Space Committee hearing on astronaut

shenanigans and non-publish status

Notes 4 pgs 13286

Gerathewohl,

Sigfried

John A. Pitts 7/6/79 1960-1965 Office of Life Science Programs,

space medicine, biomedical research

Transcript 47 pgs 769 For “The Human

Factor”

Gerstein,

Norman

John L. Sloop 8/15/73 CS 1 tape 19489 On Robert

Freitag tape

Gibb, John;

Harold

Chistianson;

Dave Fenn;

John L. Sloop 5/28/74 Biographical information Transcript 80 pgs 6687


Interview

ed


Remarks

and Glen

Hennings

Gibson, Dr.

Edward

Unnamed

interviewer

8/25/75 Astronaut training Transcript 52 pgs 774

Gibson,

Ralph

Robert

Sherrod

8/4/72 Hearing on the Apollo 15 astronauts stamps

controversy

Notes 1 pg. 13286

Gilman, Dr.

Dave

Unnamed

interviewer

CS 2 tapes 20035

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Michael Kapp 4/15/68 Funding cutbacks Reel 1 tape 20006

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Robert

Sherrod

5/14/74 Reel

CD

1 tape

1 CD

20000

&

20188

Gilruth,

Robert

Walter Sohier 4/1/64 Mercury Project, transition from Eisenhower

administration to Kennedy administration


JFK Library

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Michael

Keller

6/26/67 Career with NACA, Flight Research

Engineering, X-1, Wallops Island

Transcript

&

Reel

24 pgs

&

1 tape

785

&

20000

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Eugene

Emme and

James

Grimwood

8/24/73 Creation of NASA, Space Task Group (STG),

MSC, early space program

Transcript

17 pgs

785

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Don Neff 2/8/69 Space Task Group (STG), lunar orbit

rendezvous (LOR) and lunar module (LM)


Time, Inc.

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Robert

Sherrod

8/26/69 Rendezvous experiments; Saturn rockets; LOR

mode; trip to Antarctica

Notes 2 pgs 13286

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Robert

Sherrod

11/14/72 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; and other various

information about Gilruth and the Apollo

program

Notes 48 pgs 13286

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Robert

Sherrod

3/12/71 MIT Instrumentation Lab; Joe Shea; pursuit of

the moon; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire

Notes

&

CS

Reel

CD

5 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

1 CD

13286 &

20510 &

13292 &

20188


Interview

ed


Remarks

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

James Burke 5/16/79 Decision to go to the moon, Space Task Group

(STG), Project Mercury, Gemini and Apollo

programs, Apollo 8 and 11


the BBC

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R.

Robert

Sherrod

11/14-

16/72

Apollo program CS

CD

Reel

2 Tapes

3 CDs

2 Reels

19527 &

20510 &

13292

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Gilruth, Dr.

Robert R. and

Dr. Maxime

A. Faget

Unknown 7/17-

19/62

The Manned Lunar Mission Presented at:

American Rocket Society Lunar Mission

Meeting


Decade is Out”

Ginsberg, John L. Sloop 5/29/74 Biographical information Transcript 9 pgs 6687

Glenn, John

Jr.

Walter Sohier 6/12/64 Glenn’s meetings with JFK, JFK’s relationship

with Mercury Project

Transcript

Reel

CD

26 pgs

2 tapes

2 CDs

816 &

20000 &

20188

Copyrighted by

JFK Library

Glenn, John

H. Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

10/18/68 Politics; Bobby Kennedy’s death; and Jackie

Kennedy’s second marriage

Notes 2 pgs 13286

Glenn, John

H. Jr.

Unnamed

interviewer

7/14/95 “STS 95 Interviews, John Glenn’s Friendship 7,

John Glenn Training”

VHS 1 tape 16408

Glenn, John

H. Jr.

Robert

Merrifield

3/15/68 Mercury Project astronaut selection and

training

Transcript 18 pgs 803 For unpublished

MSC history

Glenn, John

H. Jr.

Sherry

Scarborough,

Robert

Merrifield

8/25/97 Oral History Interview also includes Mercury

MA6 (Friendship 7) debriefing


Glennan, T.

Keith

Eugene

Emme

4/5/74 Biographical information CS 1 tape 19995 For “Early

History of NASA”

Glennan, T.

Keith

Ruth W.

Helmuth

4/19/76 Position as President of Case Western reserve Transcript 12 pgs 7096 Copyrighted by

Case Western

University

Archives

Glennan, T.

Keith

Lynn

Bondurant

10/81 Early organization of NASA; passage of the

Space Act; integration of ABMA and JPL;

beginnings of GSFC and Deep Space Network;

early satellites and probes

Transcript

&

CS

8 pgs

&

1 tape

19202

& 2972

&

20035


Interview

ed


Remarks

Glennan, T.

Keith

Robert

Rosholt

1/18/64 Early organization of NASA; management and

project organization; integration of JPL and

ABMA; NASA/DoD relations; NASA/Congress

relations

Notes 7 pgs 2969

Glennan, T.

Keith

Eugene

Emme

4/6/65 USIA responsibility for all international

publicity for NASA; decision on launch

complex site and location of tracking stations;

STG launch vehicle reliability study; long range

plan for manned space flight project at ARC

Notes 1 page 2970 2 copies in file

Glennan, T.

Keith

John A. Pitts 2/19/80 Philosophy on big government; hiring

personnel for HQ staff, man in space and going

to the moon, life sciences, international coop,

management, and STG selection of Clark Grant

to head biomedical research. Used for “The

Human Factor”.

Transcript

&

CS

16 pgs

&

1 tape

2971

&

19996

Glennan, T.

Keith

Loyd

Swenson

10/7/69 Mgmt of large programs and NASA; PERT

management system; Golovin Committee

studies on reliability; George Low’s

contribution to long range planning for Apollo

Program


Glennan, T.

Keith

Robert

Sherrod

7/27/70 North American Aviation; Apollo contract Notes 1 pg. 13286 Telephone

interview

Glennan, T.

Keith

Eugene

Emme

4/5/74 Creation of NASA; early organization and

management; integration of JPL and ABMA

into NASA; Symington committee of Senate

Subcommittee on Defense Preparedness and

formation of a 10 year plan; hiring of associate

administrator; NASA/DoD relations and

cooperation

Notes 25 pgs 2974 Contains quotes

and excerpts from

Glennan’s diary

Goddard

Space Flight

Center

(GSFC)

History –

“Dreams,

Hopes,

Lane Wallace 1989-

1998

Interviews with William R. Bandeen, James S.

Barrowman, Donald L. Margolies, David L.

Blanchard, John H. Boeckel, H. Wayne

Boswell, Robert E. Bourdeau, Peter A.

Bracken, Peter T. Burr, Antonio J. Busalacchi,

Jon R. Busse, Frank J. Cepollina, John F.

Clark, Robert S. Cooper, Alphonso V. Diaz,

Transcripts Various

lengths

19439


Interview

ed


Remarks

Realities”

Interviews

A – Ha

Orlando Figueroa, Lennard A. Fisk, Arthur J.

Fuchs, Harry J. Goett, Charles R. Gunn, and

Rudolf A. Hanel

Goddard

Space Flight

Center

(GSFC)

History –

“Dreams,

Hopes,

Realities”

Interviews

Ha – Ro

Lane Wallace 1997-

1998

Interviews with Dale W. Harris, Noel W.

Hinners, Stephen S. Holt, Thomas E. Huber,

Robert Jastrow, Alton E. Jones, W. Brian

Keegan, Samuel W. Keller, John M. Klineberg,

Stephen P. Maran, John C. Mather, Frank B.

McDonald, Jaylee M. Mead, Leslie H.

Meredith, James V. Moore, John C. New,

Arthur F. Obenschain, William P. O’Leary,

Albert G. Opp, George F. Pieper, Henry H.

Plotkin, Robert D. Price, Nancy G. Roman, and

Joseph H. Rothenberg

Transcripts Various

lengths

19440

Goddard

Space Flight

Center

(GSFC)

History –

“Dreams,

Hopes,

Realities”

Interviews

Ru – Z

Lane Wallace 1977-

1998

Interviews with Janet K. Ruff, Vincent V.

Salomonson, Mark R. Schoeberl, David J.

Shrewsberry, Laverne R. Stelter (‘Verne’),

Raymond J. Sumser, Arnold L. Torres, H. Ray

Stanley, John W. Townsend, Jr., Charles Tulip,

Jr., Roland L. Van Allen, A. Thomas Young,

and Dorothy J. Zukor

Transcripts Various

lengths

19441

Goette,

Kempke, and

Nored

Adam L.

Gruen

10/24/90

and

10/25/90

NASA Culture Study Transcript 149 pgs 6687

Golden,

Harvey

Unnamed

interviewer

4/16/76 Skylab telemetry and data communication at

MSFC and Huntsville Operations Support

Center (HOSC)


Goldenbaum,

David

Robert

Sherrod

8/24/70 Differences between “First on the Moon” and

the transcripts


interview

Goldin, Dan Teresa Foley 4/23/93 program management of Space Station,

Hubble, EOS; agency overhaul; and top

personnel changes


Space News

Goodpaster, Eugene 7/22/74 Biographical information Transcript 57 pgs 13469 & For “Early


Interview

ed


Remarks

Gen. Andrew Emme and

Alex

Roland

&

CS

&

1 tape

12414

&

19995

History of NASA”

Gordon,

Richard

William

Barry

Furlong


World Book

Encyclopedia

Science Service

Gordon,

Richard

Michelle

Kelly

10/17/97 Astronaut selection; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and

redesign of the command module (CM); Gemini

8 backup crew; Gemini 11 flight and EVA;

EVA training; Apollo 9 backup crew; Apollo 12

flight; Apollo 17 and the decision to fly

Harrison “Jack” Schmitt as lunar module pilot


Gordon,

Robert

John L.

Sloop


&

CS

36 pgs

&

1 tape

6687

&

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Gorman,

Harry H.

Tom Ray 9/17/70 Reel 1 tape 20001

Gorman,

Harry H.

Robert

Sherrod

10/20/71 MSFC reorganization Notes 1 pg. 13286

Gough,

Melvin N.

John L. Sloop CS 1 tape 19489

Gough,

Melvin N.

Michael

Keller and

Eugene

Emme

9/14/67 NASA/Air Force cooperation at Atlantic Missile

Range (AMR)

Transcript

&

Reel

42 pgs

&

2 copies

20001

&

864

Gough,

William

Vernon Jr.

John L. Sloop 5/6/75 Biographical information CS 1 tape 19998 For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Graham, Dr.

R. W.


Graham,

William R.

Sylvia Fries 4/23/86 Graham’s educational background;

management of scientist vs. engineer and basic

vs. applied research; technology application

Transcript

&

CS

26 pgs

&

1 tape

5022

&

20223

2 copies


Interview

ed


Remarks

and management in government and private

industry; R&D planning; aeronautical research

for aerospace planes with current space

technology; career and projects with USAF;

employment with Hughes Aircraft

“Grand Tour:

A History of

the Voyager

Program”

Interviews

Henry

Dethloff and

Ronald

Schorn

1/99-2/99 Interviews with John Casani, David Chandler,

David Crawford, Ronald Draper, Raymond

Heacock, Charles Kohlhase, Arthur Lane,

Stephen Maran, Ellis Miner, David Morrison,

Rex Ridenoure, Bradford Smith, Edward

Stone, and George Textor re Corporal missile;

Mariner program; Grand Tour; Voyager

program; spacecraft design; naming of

Voyager; Mars Observer; Voyager computers;

Voyager’s effect on the general public;

justification for planetary missions; impact of

Voyager program on planetary astronomy;

Mariner 4; Thermoelectric Outer Planet Space

(TOPS) program; influence of Pioneer 10 and

11 on Voyager design; space radiation; Cassini;

Ranger program; Voyager budget; radioisotope

thermoelectric generators (RTGs); spacecraft

trajectories; Voyager science experiments;

space photography; Voyager planetary

astronomy; search for heliopause; length of

outer planet missions and public support;

Voyager and the scientific community; Hubble

Space Telescope (HST); Voyager program

contingency planning; Neptune encounter;

Voyager Interstellar Mission; mission planning;

Lunar Observer; New Millenium program;

Stone's role as project scientist; Pioneer 10;

Voyager public affairs; mission operations;

Voyager 2 scan platform failure; and Textor's

role as project manager

Transcripts

&

CS

Various

&

15 tapes

19506

&

12685


Interview

ed


Remarks

Grant, Dr.

David

Mae M. Link 10/27/52 Air Evacuation program during WWII Notes 2 pgs 1322 Located in Link

file

Graveline,

Dr. Duane

Robert

Sherrod

11/28/72 Reasons for resignation as an astronaut Notes 1 pg. 13286

Gray, E.Z. Adam

Gruen?

1985 CS 1 tape 20225

Greenfield,

Michael

Dr. Steven J.

Dick

11/05/04 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Greenshields,

Dave

Adam L.

Gruen

4/12/88 NASA culture Study Transcript

&

CS

51 pgs

&

1 tape

6687

&

20225

Greenfield,

Michael

Dr. Steven J.

Dick

11/05/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); role as

Associate Deputy Administrator for Technical

Programs; involvement in decision to cancel;

timeline; public reaction; risks; ISS as safe

haven

Transcript

&

CS

14 pgs

&

1 tape

19820

&

5484

Gregory,

Fred

Steven J. Dick 8/16/04 motives for becoming an astronaut; value of

exploration; Hubble Space Telescope (HST);

risks of a HST servicing mission; evaluating

risk; announcement of decision to cancel fifth

HST servicing mission; robotic servicing

mission

Transcript

&

CS

21 pgs

&

1 tape

19820

&

5484

Griffin,

Gerald

Robert

Sherrod

3/8/74 CS

Reel

1 tape

1 tape

20510 &

13292

Griffin,

Gerald

Robert

Sherrod

4/11/74 History of Mission Control Transcript

&

CS

Reel

33 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

13286 &

20510 &

13292

Griffin,

Gerald

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

44 pgs

&

1 tape

6687

&

20225

Griffith,

Thomas

Robert

Sherrod

10/7/71 Norman Mailer’s writings on Apollo 11 Notes 1 pg. 13286

Grissom, Robert 10/31/69 Gus Grissom Notes 1 pg. 13286


Interview

ed


Remarks

Mrs. Dennis Sherrod

Gross, Al Ivan Ertell 4/4/72 Space suit design and testing for Apollo

program


Grunsfeld,

John

Dr. Steven J.

Dick

04/13/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); role as Chief

Scientist; involvement in first servicing mission;

repairing HST during third and fourth

servicing missions; reasons behind SM-4 (fifth

servicing mission) cancellation; risk from

astronaut’s point of view; handling of

cancellation announcement; risk of HST

servicing missions vs. International Space

Station (ISS); view of decision; possibility of

robotic servicing mission

Transcript

&

CS

26 pgs

&

1 tape

19820

&

5484

Guin, James

H.

Charles

Bolton

6/30/1992

&

7/8/1992

Early history of Stennis Space Center (SSC). CD 3 CDs 19528 For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Gustafson,

Frederick P.

Don Byers 10/9/02

&

11/8/02

Biographical information, evolution of the

helicopter, rotary wing

Transcript,

notes, CS,

VHS, disk

18942 Includes

interviewer’s

notes

Guy, Walter

W. and Jim

Jaxx

Ed Ezell 7/7/74 Biographical information Transcript 56 pgs 6687

Hage, George Robert

Sherrod

4/17/69 Role as General Sam Phillips’ deputy and

Apollo Mission Director duties

Notes 6 pg. 13286

Hagen, John

P.

Green and

Lomask

3/17/67 Vanguard project and Minitrack Transcript 3 pgs 902

Haise, Fred

W. Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

7/1/74 Biographical Information, Lunar Module

(LM); Apollo 13

Transcript

& CS

Reel

24 pgs

& 1 tape

1 tape

13286 &

20510 &

13292

Haise, Fred

W. Jr.

Adam Gruen 5/6/88 Career with Grumman Corporation, Space

Station Freedom (SSF), contract management

Transcript

&

CS

35 pgs

&

1 tape

8385

&

20225

Haise, Fred

W. Jr.

Stewart

Rosenbaum

3/15/83 Career with NASA and Apollo 13 flight Transcript

&

CS

39 pgs

&

1 tape

8369

&

20035

Hall, Col. J. D. Hunley 11/13/98 Role in development of U.S. solid and liquid Transcript 12 pgs 18943


Interview

ed


Remarks

Edward N. fueled rocket engines; Minuteman missile

Hall, Dr.

Albert

Eugene

Emme and T.

Ray

8/1/72 Department of Defense Research &

Engineering (DDR&E), Gemini and Apollo

programs, Titan 2 and 3 launches

Transcript

&

Reel

21 pgs

&

1 tape

913

&

20006

Hall, Dr.

Harvey

Tom Ray 5/25/71 Project Rand, Navy/NACA cooperation Transcript 59 pgs 930

Hall, Eldon Eugene

Emme

6/7/73 Career at NACA, jets, propulsion, Gemini and

Apollo programs, Saturn launch vehicles

Transcript 28 pgs

917

Hall, Eldon John L. Sloop 2/28/74 Early NASA booster history CS 1 tape 19998 For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Hall, Jesse Virginia

Dawson


26 pgs

6687 For “Engines and

Innovations”

Halpern,

Richard

Adam Gruen 4/13/88 Merger of Space Station Freedom (SSF)

utilization and operations, space

commercialization

Transcript

&

CS

37 pgs

&

1 tape

983

&

20225

Halvorsen,

Gail S.

Roger D.

Launius &

John W.

Leland

5/13/1988 Experiences during the Berlin Airlift in

Germany and the origins of LITTLE VITTLES


Hamlin,

Benson

R. P. Hallion 4/72 X-1 research program Reel 1 tape 20007

Haney, Paul

P.

Robert

Sherrod

1/6-7/70 Cutting lines from Apollo 8 commentary; news

release afterApollo 1 (AS-204 fire); additional

material on Apollo 1 crew’s final tapes


interview

Haney, Paul

P.

Robert

Sherrod

6/17/71 Astronaut selection and changes in Gemini

Program

Notes

& CS

Reel

4 pgs

& 1 tape

40 Min

13286 &

20510 &

13292

Tape fades badly

at 425 on counter

Hansen,

James Dr.

Unknown 5/29/85 Goddard Institute of Space Sciences (GISS) CS 1 tape 20035

Hansen,

Grant L.;

K.J.

Bossanet;



Interview

ed


Remarks

Deane Davis;

Don A. Heald

Hardy,

Jerome

Robert

Sherrod

10/4/72 Life contract with astronauts Notes 1 pg 13286

Harlow,

Bryce N.

Eugene

Emme and

Alex Roland


&

CD

52 pgs

&

2 CDs

12415

Harris,

Aubrey

Walter

Bonney

9/23/74 Career at NACA and Langley Laboratory

1927; engines and atmospheric wind tunnel;

aeronautics courses in 1928; Navy bioplane

system projects; WWII research leading up to

X-1; Lewis Research Center (LeRC)


Harris,

Gordon L.

Mr. Jones Received

6/12/73

Skylab rescue mission and parasol deployment Transcript 19 pgs 957 &

7589

Harrison, Jim Unnamed

interviewer

7/28/83 “Large” space structures CS 1 tape 20035

Hartmann,

Mel; Rohlick,

Harold;

Johnson, Bob;

Anderson,

Bill


&

CS

47 pgs

&

1 tape

6687

&

19489

Hasson,

Dennis

Steven J. Dick 6/12/07 Education; aeronautical design work at Glenn

L. Martin Company; employment by the

NACA at Langley Research Center (LaRC);

work in Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel; transition

from NACA to NASA; design of Mercury

spacecraft; possibility of using a lenticular

(saucer-shaped) spacecraft in Apollo; work

with the Space Task Group (STG); design of

the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO)

at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Transcript 12 pgs 19819 Includes related

material

Hauck, Rick Unnamed

interviewer

May,

1983

Planned activities for STS-7 mission Transcript 15 pgs 970

Hauck, Rick Unnamed

interviewer

1/13/87 Commander – 26th shuttle mission CS 1 tape 20039


Interview

ed


Remarks

Hauck, Rick

& Richard

Covey

Unnamed

interviewer


Hauenstein,

Clifford

Mr. Brooks 7/15/70 Work at Rocketdyne for Apollo program: LM

and CSM engines


Headlee,

Joseph

Robert

Sherrod

6/22/73 NASA publicity – TV films and radio

interviews

Notes 1 pg. 13286

Heald, Morrel Unnamed

interviewer

6/26/86 CS 1 tape

Heath, Don Unknown

Interview

2/24/86 Effects of fluorocarbons on the ozone CS 1 tape 20036

Heiss, Klaus John Logsdon 3/27/78 Space shuttle decision process Transcript

& Disk

81 pgs 7915

Hello, Bastian Ivan Ertel 12/20/68 North American Aviation (NAA) after the

Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; spacecraft design;

Apollo command module (CM); Guenter

Wendt; NAA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

operations


Decade is Out”

Helms, Ray;

Cecil

Houston;

Bob Serick

Mr. Jones Received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 anomaly, Marshall parasol, and

Skylab 2


&

7589

Hendricks,

John

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

date

Shuttle student involvement CS 1 tape 20036

Herman,

Daniel H.

Sylvia Fries 3/26/85 Space station program CS 1 tape 20223

Herman,

Daniel

Adam Gruen 4/18/88 Space station program, senior engineer position Transcript

&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

1008

&

20225

Hermann, Dr. Dr. Hugh L.

Dryden

6/15/45 Peenemunde V-2 rocket development; 1944

Institute layout, research and experiments

Notes 4 pgs 3027 Located in

Dryden file

Herring,

Mack R.

Robert

Sherrod

1/8/71 Conflict between Herring at MTF and

Heimburg at MSFC

Notes 1 pg. 13286

Herstory

Project

Rebecca

Wright,

1999-

2002

interviews with Beverly Cothren, Bonnie

Dalton, Annie Easley, Eilene Galloway, Connie

Transcripts

&

Various

lengths

3636


Interview

ed


Remarks

Interviews Sandra

Johnson, and

Carol Butler

Harney, Mary "Tut" Hedgepeth, Carolyn

Huntoon, Betty Love, Sheryll Powers, Nancy

Roman, Bertha Ryan, Donna Shirley, Harriet

DeVries Smith, and Laurel Wilkening re

Cothren's work at NACA Flight Research

Center (FRC) as a computer; Viking; Spacelab;

NASA life sciences program; Space Shuttle life

science payloads; women in NASA; Easley's

work at Lewis Research Center (LeRC) as a

computer; Equal Employment Opportunity

(EEO); transition from NACA to NASA;

computers; impact of Sputnik; Lyndon

Johnson; National Aeronautics and Space Act

of 1958; formation of United Nations

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

(COPUOS); Congress and space; international

cooperation; space law; Harney's work at

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)

as a computer programmer; flight testing;

Hedgepeth's work at Edwards AFB with

computers; attitude towards women

supervisors; Apollo and Skylab life sciences;

US/Soviet international cooperation; Shuttle

astronaut selection; life sciences at Johnson

Space Center (JSC); space stations; Huntoon's

role as JSC Center Director and work with

White House Office of Science and Technology

Policy (OSTP); technology changes and flight

analysis; Powers' role as engineer at FRC;

Space Shuttle testing; Roman's career as

astronomer; NASA astronomy program;

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO);

Hubble Space Telescope (HST); Apollo

Telescope Mount (ATM); NASA and

astronomy community; International

Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE); lifting bodies; M2-

F1; M2-F2; Ryan's work with the Navy at

CS

&

CDs

&

7 tapes

&

28 CDs


Interview

ed


Remarks

China Lake; women engineers; Mars missions;

Mariner program; drug analysis; Mariner

Venus Mercury (MVM); Mariner 10;

geothermal energy; Space Station Freedom

(SSF); robotic rovers; Mars Pathfinder and

Sojourner; Mars Global Surveyor (MGS);

program management; F-14; Smith's work as a

congressional staffer; meteorites; analysis of

Apollo lunar samples; University of Arizona

Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL);

women in the sciences; Voyager encounter with

Saturn; Halley’s Comet mission; National

Commission on Space; space policy; and The

Planetary Society (TPS).

Hess, Dr.

Wilmot

Robert

Sherrod

5/18/69 Plans for geological findings of Lunar samples Notes 3 pgs 13286

Hessberg, Dr.

Rufus

John A. Pitts 7/17/79 Space medicine and biomedical research,

“bioastronautics” vs. “space medicine”

Transcript 6 pgs 1034 for “The Human

Factor”

Hill, Henry Unknown

Interviewer

Unknown

date

Mission Manager Solar Array Flight

Experiment

CS 1 tape 20036

Hilmers, Dave

& Rick

Hauck

Unknown

Interviewer


Conclusion of

Rick Hauck

interview

History of

Atmospheric

Sciences

Interviews

Erik Conway 2001-

2003

Interviews with Edgar Cortright, William

Grose, Milton Halem, James D. Lawrence, M.

Patrick McCormick, Michael Prather, William

L. Smith, Morris Tepper, and Thomas Vonder

Haar re early NASA weather satellite program;

Tiros; Nimbus; historians and Cortright’s

tenure as Langley Research Center director;

scientific experiments on satellites; ozone;

stratospheric research; chlorine; weather

modeling; Global Atmospheric Research

Program (GARP); computers; climate

modeling; organization of environmental

sciences programs at NASA; LIDAR; polar

Transcripts Various

lengths

18945


Interview

ed


Remarks

stratospheric clouds (PSCs); Apollo Soyuz Test

Project (ASTP) experiment; Stratospheric

Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE); weather

forecasting; cloud particles; Geostationary

Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES);

HIRS; atmospheric sounding; NASA and

Weather Bureau; international cooperation;

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE);

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

(DMSP); and Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

(ERBS)

Hjornevik,

Wesley

Eugene

Emme

3/9/67,

7/1/67,

and

9/9/67

Role as personal assistant to T. Keith Glennan Transcript 13 pgs 1016

Hobbs, Luke Walter

Bonney

10/27/71 Pre-WWII research on aircraft and jet engines Transcripts

17 pgs 1018

Hodge, Dr.

John D.

Sylvia Fries 3/4/85 Space station Transcript

&

CS

18 pgs

&

1 tape

20223

&

1020

See also Richard

Carlisle interview

Hodge, Dr.

John D.

Adam Gruen 12/18/86 Shuttle, space transportation system Transcript

&

CS

123 pgs

&

2 tapes

1020

&

20225

Hodge, Dr.

John D.

Adam Gruen 2/25/88 Space station design, Skylab project Transcript

&

CS

125 pgs

&

2 tapes

1020

&

20225

Hodgkins,

Kenneth D.

Carol L.

Butler &

Joanne Irene

Gabrynowicz

1/10/02 Occupational experiences; United Nations

Principles on Remote Sensing; Landsat; SPOT


Hoffman, Jeff Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

date

CS 1 tape 20036

Hoffman,

Samuel

Courtney 7/17/70 Rocketdyne, early launch vehicles and rocket

engines



Interview

ed


Remarks

Holcomb,

John

Tom Ray 6/6/72 Development Of KSC launch facilities,

coordination of KSC, MSFC, HQ, Apollo

tracking stations


Holmes,

Brainerd

Don Neff 2/18/69 Apollo program, LOR vs. EOR, OMSF and

Raytheon positions


Time Magazine

Holmes, Jay Robert

Sherrod

1/27/72 Source for Kennedy statement about US/USSR

competition


interview

Holmes, Jay Robert

Sherrod

2/11/72 “Selected Activities, January-March 1968”

manuscript

Notes 5 pgs 13286

Holmes, Jay Robert

Sherrod

6/28/72 Exit interview including Aerospace view during

NASA/USAF struggles; M&R reporter;

Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson

administrations; advanced manned missions;

Mueller; NASA/DoD relationship

Notes 12 pgs 13286

Hood, Manley Walter

Bonney

9/23/74 NACA career, wind tunnel design and use, P51

Mustang, jet propulsion


Hootman,

James

Eugene

Emme

10/6/66 Reel 1 tape 20001

Hopson,

George

Unnamed

interviewer

Received

6/12/73

Chief of Life Support and Environmental

branch, Skylab environment and thermal

control, Skylab 1 accident and Skylab 2 repair

mission


&

7589

Horner,

Richard

Walter

Bonney

5/3/72 Aeronautical developments and funding, Army

Air Corps, industry, and NACA during WWII


Horner,

Richard

Eugene

Emme and

John Sloop

3/13/74 CS

&

Transcript

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Hornig,

Donald

Unnamed

Interviewer

10/11/67 Presidential Science Advisory Committee

(PSAC)

Reel 1 tape 20008

Hornig, Dr.

Donald

Dr. Skolnikoff 10/30/67 Science and foreign policy Transcript 37 pgs 1095

Horton, Vic Richard P

Hallion

02/26/77 Miscellaneous Biographies Notes 5 pgs 6687

Hosenball, S.

Neil

Carol Butler

and Joanne

2/7/02 &

2/8/02

NASA Career and UN Principles on Remote

Sensing

Transcript

Transcript

57 pgs.

38 pgs.

18108 Copyright held by

National Remote


Interview

ed


Remarks

Gabrynowicz Sensing and Space

Law Center, Univ.

of Mississippi

Houbolt, John Don Neff 2/10/69 Orbital lab plans in 1950s, Langley Space Task

Group (STG); idea of lunar orbit rendezvous

(LOR) and decision to use LOR in Apollo

program


1100

& PDF

50710

Copyrighted by

Time, Inc.

Hull, Gen.

Harris

Robert

Sherrod

4/6/70 Webb motivating and persuading Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287

Humphrey,

Hubert H.

Robert

Sherrod

5/11/71 Four years as chairman of the National Space

Council

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

15 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

20510

&

13287 &

13292

Humphreys,

James Jr.

(J.W.)

John A. Pitts 5/2/79 Life Sciences Council, bio-technology, space

biology and space medicine division with OSMF

Transcript

&

CS

37 pgs

&

1 tape

1/9/5

1068 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Hunsaker,

Jerome

Walter

Bonney

11/2/71 Aeronautical R&D for zeppelins, LTAs, flying

boats and U-2s


1069

Hunsaker,

Jerome

Unnamed

interviewer

3/27/62 NACA Chairmanship, scientific and technical

approach


1069

May be Bonney

interview

Hunter,

Maxwell

Self-Directed ca. 1999 Reusable Rockets; Star Clipper; Space Shuttle

thermal tiles; single stage to orbit

Transcript

CS

24 pgs

1 tape

I/J/6

18947

Huntress,

Wesley T.

Rebecca

Wright

1/9/03 Cassini-Huygens, UARS, Planetary Division,

Mars Pathfinder, NEAR, Discovery, EOS,

Mission to Planet Earth, Hubble, international

cooperation, Allan Hills meteorite (Mars rock)

Transcript 41 pages I/J/6

18948

Hurt, J.B. Loyd

Swenson &

Ivan Ertel

1/28/70 Little Joe II; solid propulsion; General

Dynamics; Little Joe launch vehicle design;

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR);

spacecraft guidance

Transcript 28 pgs XII/D/5

19530

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Hurtt, Calet Unnamed

interviewer

8/19/75 Martin Marietta’s role in Apollo Applications

Program and payload integration for Skylab

Project


1102


Interview

ed


Remarks

Hutchinson,

Neil

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Huzel, Dieter Loyd

Swenson,

Tom Ray, and

Ralph Oakley

7/20/70 V1 and V2 projects at Peenemunde, Operation

Paperclip, rocket engine development Up to

Saturn 5


1089

Hyatt,

Abraham

John L. Sloop 4/26/74 1959 decision to use hydrogen as fuel, first

hydrogen propulsion vehicle and Delta

Transcript

&

CS

46 pgs

&

Part of 2

tapes

1/9/6

1093

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Inside NASA

Culture Study

Interviews

A - Ha

Howard

McCurdy

1987-

1990

Interviews with George Abbey, Paul Bikle,

Charles Blankenship, Stanley Butchart, H.

Hollister Cantus, Edgar Cortright, Philip

Culbertson, John Duberg, Max Faget, Robert

Gilruth, Harry Goett, Gerald Griffin, and

Walter Haeussermann

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/I

18720

Inside NASA

Culture Study

Interviews

He - Ma

Howard

McCurdy

1987-

1991

Interviews with Donald Hearth, Karl

Heimburg, Noel Hinners, Lee James,

Cristopher Kraft, Eugene Kranz, Horace

Lamberth, Robert Lindstrom, Laurence Loftin,

William Lucas, William Mace, and Franklin

Martin

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/I

18721

Inside NASA

Culture Study

Interviews

Mc - Pi

Howard

McCurdy

1987-

1990

Interviews with Thomas McMurtry, Jesse

Moore, George Mueller, John Naugle, Clifford

Nelson, Oran Nicks, C. Robert Nysmith, Rocco

Petrone, Samuel Phillips, and George Pieper

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/I

18722

Inside NASA

Culture Study

Interviews

Pr - Z

Howard

McCurdy

1987-

1991

Interviews with G. Merritt Preston, Joseph

Purcell, Eberhard Rees, Russell Robinson,

Joseph Shea, Robert Sieck, Abe Silverstein,

Richard Smith, Andrew Stofan, Clarence

(“Sy”) Syvertson, John D. Young, and James

Webb

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/I

18723

Internationati

onal Relations

History

Interviews

John Krige 2007 Interviews with Karin Barbance, Richard

Barnes, Jacques Blamont, John Casani, Jean-

Pierre Causse, Lynn Cline, Peter Creola,

Charles Elachi, Margaret Finarelli, Arnold

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/I/5

11183


Interview

ed


Remarks

Frutkin, Roy Gibson, Andre Lebeau, Fernando

de Mendonca, Robert Mitchell, Michael

O’Brien, Karl Reuter, John Schumacher, and

David Southwood re European Space Agency

(ESA); International Solar Polar Mission

(ISPM); cooperation between NASA and ESA;

cooperation between ESA and Soviet Union;

International Space Station (ISS); Spacelab;

NASA International Affairs Division;

Symphonie satellite; Ariane launch vehicle;

European participation in Space Shuttle;

export control; Helios solar probe; NASA

European representative; launch vehicle

technology transfer to Japan; NASA

cooperation with India; ATS-6 and Satellite

Instructional Television Experiment (SITE);

French space program; CNES; cooperation

between NASA and CNES; CNES cooperation

with the Soviet Union; Clementine; Galileo

probe; NASA cooperation with Germany;

Cassini-Huygens probe; Intelsat; NASA

cooperation with the Soviet Union and Russia;

International Traffic in Arms Regulations

(ITAR); post-Apollo planning; attitudes

towards risk; Faster, Better, Cheaper; Space

Station Freedom (SSF); cooperation between

NASA and Japan; International Geophysical

Year (IGY); Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP);

space tug; technology transfer; San Marco

launch site; European Space Research

Organization (ESRO); Brazilian space agency;

cooperation between NASA and Brazil;

Landsat; cooperation between NASA and

Germany; German space program; and Ulysses

probe

Isakowitz, Dr.

Steve

Dr. Steven J.

Dick


Comptroller, Deputy Chief Financial Officer

Transcript

&

31 pgs

&

I/I/4

19820

2 copies of tape


Interview

ed


Remarks

for Resources; budget issues surrounding

cancellation of fifth servicing mission; scientific

questions/achievements of HST; timeline of

cancellation; relation of HST servicing to Vision

for Space Exploration (VSE); defining moment

of cancellation; announcement of cancellation

CS 1 tape &

XII/D/2

5484

Jaffe,

Leonard

Eugene

Emme


&

CS

23 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/2

13473 &

XII/C/4

19995

James, Lee B. David Akens 5/21/71 Apollo 13 Review Board, Skylab malfunction

and review, Space Shuttle


1121

Jarvis, Cal Mr. Ertel 7/28/71 Design and testing of Lunar Landing Research

Vehicle


1124

Johnson,

Caldwell

Don Neff 2/7/69 Development of LM, LOR vs. EOR vs. Lunar

landing mission


1132

Copyrighted by

Time, Inc.

Johnson,

Caldwell and

Wm. Petynia

Mr. Johnson Tape

received

6/12/73

Development and construction of parasail for

Skylab 2


1132 &

7/11/4

7590

Johnson,

Charles Y.

Homer E.

Newell

3/15/77 Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Johnson,

Clarence L.

John Sloop 2/14/74 Hydrogen as a fuel, use in Centaur and Saturn,

work on SUNTAN

Transcript

&

CS

26 pgs

&

1 tape

1/10/1

1133

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Johnson,

Clarence L.

and Ben Rich

John L. Sloop 5/2/74 Hydrogen fuel R&D, Mach missions, SR-71

Blackbird aircraft, U-2, administration of

Lockheed

Transcript

&

CS

67 pgs

1 tape

1/10/1

1133

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Johnson,

Lyndon B.

Walter

Cronkite

7/5/69 Origins of the space program, the Space

Council, decision to land a man on the Moon,

Sputnik I & Sputnik II, future of the space

program, Russian space program, Apollo 1 fire,

Mercury 7

Transcript

&

Reel

45 pgs.

&

1 tape

IV/B/1

12530

&

XII/B/2

20006

Transcript of CBS

News Interview

broadcast

Sunday, 7/21/69


Interview

ed


Remarks

Johnson,

Lyndon B.

Eugene

Emme

& John

Logsdon

6/17/70 “Teach-In” Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20006

Johnson,

Lyndon B.

Robert

Sherrod

7/25/72 1958 civilian vs. USAF control of space

program, James Webb as Administrator,

Eisenhower and UN delegation, Life contract,

space program after lunar landing, Webb and

Alabama

Notes 21 pgs IV/B/1

12530

Written responses

to proposed

questions

Johnson

Space Center

(JSC) and

Stennis Space

Center (SSC)

Histories

Interviews

Henry

Dethloff

1989-

1991

Audio interviews with Aaron Cohen, R. Bryan

Erb, Roy Estess, Max Faget, Dennis Fielder,

Jerome Hammack, Miguel Hernandez, William

Holmberg, Wesley Hjornevik, Jerry Hlass,

Eugene Horton, William Huffstetler,

Christopher Kraft Jr., David Lang, William

Petynia, Paul Purser, Oran Nicks, Glynn

Lunney, Owen Morris, W. Hewitt Phillips,

Robert Piland, Patsy Rand, Emyre Robinson,

Rod Rose, Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton, and

Wayne Young. Contains transcript of Kraft

interview

Transcript

&

CS

66 pgs

&

35 tapes

I/J/5

3286

JSC interviews

for Book,

“Suddenly

Tomorrow

Came…”

Johnson,

Vincent

Eugene

Emme

2/21/74 Navy Bureau of Ordinance and NASA launch

vehicle program; Early NASA history

Transcript

26 pgs

1/10/2

1141

Johnson, W.

Kemble

Michael

Keller

6/27/67 Wind tunnel and icing tunnel construction and

research FY1940 budget and staffing, NACA

and Air Corps cooperation for continuing

research during WWII

Transcript

&

Reel

39 pgs

&

1 tape

1/10/2

1142 &

XII/B/1

20001

Johnston,

Richard S.

Bob

Merrifield

4/9/68 Mgmt and organization of Life Systems

Division, MSC for Mercury and Gemini

spacecraft and spacesuit development, environ.

Control, biomedical research, and centrifuge

facilities aeromedical labs with NASA for

Mercury


1145

Johnston,

Richard S.

John A. Pitts 8/18/80 Life Sciences, Johnson Space Center (JSC) CS 2 tapes XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Johnston, Robert 12/12/72 Life Sciences at the Manned Spacecraft Center Transcript 45 pgs 13287 &


Interview

ed


Remarks

Richard S. Sherrod (MSC) CS

Reel

1 tape

1 tape

20510 &

13292

Johnston, S.

Paul

Walter

Bonney

10/19/71 Army Air Corps during WWI, Research

Coordinator at NACA, aviation activities in

Europe, steel tube aircraft construction


1146

Johnston,

William V.

John L. Sloop 4/7/76 CS 1 tape XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Jones, Joe Robert

Sherrod

1/8/71 Saturn V Rockets for the Apollo missions Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Telephone

interview

Jones, Robert

T.

Richard P.

Hallion

7/14/77 Biographical information Notes

1 pg. I/J/3

6687

Telephone

Conversation

Jones, Robert

T.

Walter

Bonney

9/24/74 Aeronautical theories and research at NACA,

1st NACA test pilot, supersonic research, NACA

aircraft structures


1147

Jones, Dr.

Walton

(Stanley)

John A. Pitts 5/22/79 NASA/DoD biomedical programs, neutral

buoyancy training, life support systems, life

sciences projects: Mercury through Apollo

Transcript

&

CS

76 pgs

&

1 tape

1/10/2

1148 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Kantrowitz,

Dr. Arthur

Walter

Bonney

11/1/71 NACA, Langley Research Center, Eastman

Jacobs and supersonic flight


1155

Kapp,

Michael

Robert

Gilruth

4/15/68 Cutback in funding Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20006

Kapp,

Michael

Robert

Sherrod

9/30/71 Convincing Time-Life to offer contract to

astronauts

Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287

Kapryan,

Walter J.

Mr. Jones Received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 rescue and Skylab 2 launch, design

and testing of Gemini spacecraft and ground

equip., launch of Gemini flights


1158 &

7/11/4

7590

Kapryan,

Walter J.

Mr.

Grimwood

5/25/67 MSC position, Mercury flights, technical

problems with Gemini equipment,


1158

Keeley,

Joseph

Unnamed

interviewer

8/19/75 Skylab project, Apollo Applications Program,

program management, astronaut training,

contractor interfacing


1163


Interview

ed


Remarks

Keller Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

Engineer, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Kelley, Dr.

Albert J.

Cargill Hall,

Richard

Dowling, and

Eugene

Emme

8/28/68 Establishment of Agena launch vehicle

program; management of Ranger and Agena

projects; establishment of Electronics Research

Center (ERC)

Transcript

&

Reel

46 pgs 3/4/5

5372

& 1/10/3

1168

& XII/B/1

20001

Kelley, Dr.

Albert J.

Neil Furst 5/20/68 Electronics Research Center origins, site

location


1168

Kelliher,

Philip

9/1/60

9/2/60

Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20003

Kelly,

Thomas J.

Robert

Sherrod

12/13/72 Grumman Aerospace Corporation; Apollo

Program

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

28 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

13287 &

20510 &

13292

Kelsey, Ben not supplied 3/15/78 Biographical information Notes 1 pg. I/J/3

6688

Kendricks,

General

Mae M. Link 8/15/51 Advising Kendricks of new historical program Notes 2 pgs 1/11/4

1322

Located in Link

file

Kennel,

Charles F.

Sandra

Johnson

10/21/02 Voyager, Space Studies Board, Hubble, Mission

to Planet Earth, EOS, Earth Science, Dan

Goldin, astrobiology, environmental policy,

international cooperation, CEOS, IGOS, global

warming, Landsat, education, NAC,


Transcript

&

CDs

&

Disk

50 pages

&

2 CDs

I/J/6

18949

Keyworth,

George

Donald R.

Baucom

9/28/87 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Transcript 40 pgs IV/B/6

16766

Killian, James

R. Jr.

Prof.

Skolinkoff

4/28/67 Science and foreign policy Transcripts 17 pgs

&

20 pgs

1/10/3

1190

Transcripts of

video interview

King, Charles

H.

Robert

Sherrod

3/2/70 Pogo and engine problems of Saturn V Notes 1 pg. III/B/2

13287

Telephone

interview

King, Jack Robert 10/30/69 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 3 pgs III/B/2 Telephone


Interview

ed


Remarks

Sherrod 13287 interview

Kingsberry,

James E.

Unnamed

interviewer

Received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 damage during launch Transcript 54 pgs 1/10/3

1195 &

7/11/4

7590

Kinzler, Jack Unnamed

interviewer

Received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 malfunction, Johnson Space Center

(JSC) Technical Services role, mercury

spacecraft impact bag, design and deployment

of Skylab parasol


1196 &

7/11/4

7590

Kinzler, Jack Unnamed

interviewer

6/9/97 Building models for wind tunnels at Langley

Research Center; setting up technical services

at MSC/JSC; Mercury boilerplate spacecraft;

Mercury heat shield; building spacecraft

models and mockups

Transcript 22 pgs

&

14 pgs

1/10/3

1196

&

I/J/6

18950

Kirkland, Bill Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

date

Tech Transfer CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Kistiakowsky,

Dr. George

Eugene

Emme

5/22/74 Transcript

&

CS

59 pgs

&

2 tapes

1/10/5

1200

& XII/C/4

19995

For “Early

History of NASA”

Kistiakowsky,

Dr. George B.

Prof.

Skolinkoff

4/28/67 Science and foreign policy reel 3 Transcript 19 pgs

&

15 pgs

1/10/5

1200

Transcript of

video interview

(two reels)

Kistiakowsky,

Dr. George B.

Unknown

Interviewer

Unknown

date

Transcript 1/10/5

1200

Klein,

Richard

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

58 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

Kleinknecht,

Kenneth S.

Unnamed

interviewer

Received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 damage during launch and repair,

design of SEVA sail and parasol for Skylab 2

mission


1205 &

7/11/4

7591

Kline, Ray Robert

Sherrod

4/12/71 Huntsville Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287

Knott, Dr. Interviewer 3/85 KSC Plant Growth Studies CS 1 tape XII/C/4


Interview

ed


Remarks

Bill unknown

Kolf, Jack Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

46 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

Kolhase,

Charles

Unknown

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Voyager encounter with Uranus CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Konecci, Dr.

Eugene

Eugene

Emme and

James

Grimwood

8/30/73 Research at Douglas Aircraft on spacecraft,

etc., NASA long range planning, advanced

research, technology, biomedical research

Transcript

46 pgs

1/10/5

1223

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr. and

Charlie

Donlan

Robert

Sherrod

2/15/70 The selection of the first and second groups of

astronauts

Notes 1 pg. III/B/2

13286

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

7/23/72 Apollo-Soyuz Test Program, astronauts for

ASTP, von Braun, Apollo 15 stamps

controversy, biographical information

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr.

Robert

Sherrod


&

CS

Reel

70 pgs

&

2 tapes

2 tapes

13287 &

20510 &

13292 &

13293

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr.

Don Neff 2/4/69 Development Of LM systems, LOR vs. EOR,

Mercury and Gemini benefits for Apollo


1239

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr.

A. R. Jones Received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 accident, parasail development,

Skylab 2 to deploy SEVA sail


1239 &

7/11/4

7591

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr.

Ed Ezell 3/28/76 Apollo/Soyuz Test Project, Soviet space

program, electronic components, Skylab

project


1239

Kraft,

Christopher

C., Jr.

Ed Ezell 4/12/76 International space program,

astronaut/cosmonaut training


1239


Interview

ed


Remarks

Kranz,

Eugene F.

Rebecca

Wright

Carol Butler

& Sasha

Tarrant

1/8/99 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; “all-up” testing;

decision to send Apollo 8 on circumlunar flight;

Apollo 8 flight; Apollo 9 flight; flight controller

training for Apollo 11; Apollo 11 flight; Mission

Control Center (MCC)


19531

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Kranz,

Eugene F.

Jeffrey

Kluger

1/7/93 Apollo 13: Tiger team, trajectory options, burn

options, course corrections


1243

Kranz,

Eugene F.

James Burke 5/18/79 Apollo 11 landing, budget cuts after 1970,

anticipated problems with Apollo equipment


1243

Copyrighted by

BBC

Krier, Gary

E.

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

42 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

0668 &

XII/C/3

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

Kuiper, Dr.

Gerald P.

Robert

Sherrod

2/5/73 Lost appropriation, insufficient NASA info

provided to public

Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287

Ladwig, Alan Rehm, Diane 7/16/98 On Diane Rehm show; Topic: UFOs CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Laeser,

Richard

Adam Gruen 4/20/88 Career history at JPL since 1964, focusing on

Voyager Project, integration of analysis and

engineering

Transcript

&

CS

31 pgs

&

1 tape

1/11/1

1261 &

XII/C/3

20225

Laitin, Joseph Robert

Sherrod

3/25/69 Christmas message from orbit for Bourgin Notes 4 pgs III/B/2

13287

Langley 737

Testbed

History

Interviews

Lane Wallace 1993 Interviews with Robert Bleegs, Robert Dunn,

Delmar Fadden, George “Barry” Graves,

Bernie Hainline, Tony Lambrechts, Alan

Mullaly, Richard Peal, Seymour Salmirs, John

Warner, and Holden “Bob” Withington

Transcripts

&

CS

Various

lengths

&

8 tapes

I/I/3

7105

Lane, Jay Interviewer

unknown

9/29/82 Manager of Tethered Satellite System Task

Team

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Larklen,

Robert

Arthur

Levine

8/31/60 Mgmt, organization, personnel management,

and freedom for researchers for NACA

Notes 6 pgs 1/11/1

5019

Latter,

Natalie

Ed Ezell 7/22/75 Interpreter for Apollo/Soyuz Test Project

working groups and mission


1268

Original and copy

of same in file

Layton, Richard P. 12/2/76 Comments on Shuttle Transcript 23 pgs I/J/3 for “On the


Interview

ed


Remarks

Garrison Hallion &

CS

&

1 tape

6688 &

XII/B/3

19996

Frontier”

Leberte, Pete Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

Manager, Huntsville Operations Support

Center

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Lederer,

Jerome

Robert

Sherrod

7/28/71 Melvin Gough Notes 1 pg. III/B/2

13287

Lee, Chester

M.

Ed Ezell 5/5/75 Apollo/Soyuz Test Project, co-op with Soviets,

ASTP PR, future joint international space

station


1276

2 copies in file

Leislein,

Symour

Unnamed

interviewer


Levine, Jack Andrew

Butrica

3/13/98 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Liebergot,

Seymour A.

Jeffrey

Kluger

5/28/92 Role as flight controller in resolving Apollo 13

crisis


15373

Lilly, William John Logsdon 8/21/70 Apollo Applications Program/Skylab funding,

resources, effort problems

Transcript

&

Reel

38 pgs

&

265 ft

1/11/3

1302 &

XII/B/1

20003

Found on Side 2

of Willis Shapley

tape

Lilly, William Eugene

Emme

10/27/72 Early NASA organization and management

through Apollo


1302

Lilly, William John Mauer 10/20/83 Origins of space shuttle project, design

considerations, cuts, and modifications


1302

Lindley,

Robert N.

Chris Gainor 9/28/97 Cancellation of Avro Arrow; role as engineer at

McDonnell Aircraft Corp.; Gemini spacecraft

design; Mathematica study of the Space Shuttle

Transcript 7 pgs I/J/6

18951

Littlewood,

William

Unknown

Interviewer


20001

Lloyd, O. B.

(“Bill”)

Robert

Sherrod

3/23/72 Budget in mid-1960s Notes 1 pg. III/B/2

13287

Lloyd, O.B.

(“Bill”)

Robert

Sherrod

11/11/71 Astronaut conduct Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287


Interview

ed


Remarks

Loening,

Grover

Walter

Bonney

11/15/71 Aeronautical research at NACA, aircraft

design, Nave proposal for submarine aircraft,

military dominance over NACA, STOL and

VTOL development.


1330

Loening,

Grover

Unknown

Interviewer


20001

Loftin,

Laurence K.

Walter

Bonney

3/28/73 Research at LMAL on flutter, airfoils, and

laminar flow; jet aircraft; x-Type and F100

Century Series


1331

Loftin,

Laurence K.

Unknown

interviewer

9/3/87 LARC Aeronautics history CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Loftus,

Joseph

Bilstein,

Roger


20036

Loftus,

Joseph

Jeff Bingham 4/29/99 Space program (40 year) summary: as national

policy, every decision debated, Saturn V, space

station design; steps to Space Station (Space

Lab, Shuttle, Mir); communications satellite as

commercial space uses; public opinion of

NASA; NASA strength and weakness as part of

Fed. Government; inter-center relationships;

NASA/ Congress relationship

Transcript

&

CS

41 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/6

18952

&

XII/C/4

20036

Loftus,

Joseph

Adam Gruen 9/22/87 NASA Culture Study interview on shuttle

history: development and verification of

software

Transcript

&

CS

50 pgs

&

1 tape

1/11/5

1332 &

XII/C/3

20225

Lombardo,

Joe

Unnamed

Interviewer

10/14/86 MSFC Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Longenecker,

Jerry

Unnamed

Interviewer

3/25/86 GOES weather satellite CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Lord, Douglas Mae M. Link 8/3/71 NASA life sciences program during Mercury,

reliability of spacecraft and shuttle


1340

Two copies

Lord,

Douglas, &

Dr. Leo

Werner

Unnamed

interviewer

7/10/75 Mission planning for lunar drill and roving

vehicles, lunar and planetary bases, advanced

launch vehicles


1340


Interview

ed


Remarks

Lord, Douglas Adam Gruen 4/29/85 CS 2 tapes XII/C/3

20225

Lottman,

Robert V.

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/C/3

20225

Louviere, Al Adam L.

Gruen and D.

Griggs

5/5/86 Space Station History Project CS 90 min I/J/3

6688

Lovelace, Dr.

Alan

Mark

Damohn

3/1/98 Role as Assistant Administrator for NASA

during most of Ford and all of Carter

Administration; Congressional relations; NASA

budget; White House relations; Office of

Management and Budget (OMB); Space Shuttle

program; NASA-DoD relations; Skylab deorbit

Transcript

&

CS

65 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/J/6

18953

&

XII/C/4

20036

Lovell, Capt.

James A., Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

6/28-

29/74

Apollo 13 CS

Reel &

Reel &

Transcript

CD

5 tapes

Tape 1 &

4 tapes &

71 pgs

1 CD

20511 &

13287 &

20188 &

13293

Lovell, Capt.

James A., Jr.

Stuart Harris 5/19/79 Apollo 13 flight and malfunction; navigation on

Apollo 8, astronaut physiological and

psychological testing


1352

Copyrighted by

the BBC

Lovell, Capt.

James A., Jr.

Unnamed

interviewer

1983 Apollo 13 flight and malfunction, Apollo 8,

Gemini 12, and Gemini 7 flights


1351

Low, Dr.

George M.

Don Neff,

Time, Inc.

1/9, 1/14,

and

2/4/69

Establishment and activities of STG, Project

Mercury; and move to MSC in Houston;

decision for LOR mission mode for Lunar

landing; Saturn launch vehicle and Apollo

spacecraft development

Notes

&

Transcript

5 pgs

&

7 pgs

6/6/3

4136

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

12/24/70 Staff meetings at KSC; LOR decision; limited

expertise from Mercury and Gemini in Apollo

Notes

&

CS

Reel

2 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

20511 &

13293

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

6/21/72 Biographical information Notes

&

9 pgs

&

20511

& 13287


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS

Reel

1 tape

30 Min

& 13293

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

7/5/72 Biographical info; NASA formation, personnel;

MSC; politics and personnel; Apollo Program

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

16 pgs 20511 &

13287 &

13293

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

1/16/74 Saturn V launch vehicle; lunar orbit

rendezvous (LOR); astronaut crew selection;

Apollo spacecraft design; Joe Shea;

Configuration Control Board (CCB)

Transcript

CS

&

CD

25 pgs

1 tape

&

2 CDs

19533 &

20511

& 13287

& 13293

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Low, Dr.

George M.

John Logsdon 1/30/80 Space shuttle decision process Transcript

& Disk

49 pgs 2/3/7

7915

Low, Dr.

George M.

John Logsdon 7/7/70 Early space shuttle planning Transcript

&

Reel

17 pgs

&

3 ¾ hours

6/6/3

4134 &

XII/B/1

20002

Found on side two

of Paine tape

Low, Dr.

George M.

James Burke 5/25/79 Origins of Apollo program; Pres. Kennedy’s

decision to announce manned Lunar landing

goal; decision for LOR; recovery from Apollo 1

fire; science in Apollo; 1970 budget cuts; public

reaction to Alan Shepard Mercury flight; role

of astronauts in development of hardware


4135

Copyrighted by

the BBC

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

8/12/70 Planning for future of Apollo after Paine’s

resignation

Notes 5 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

12/30/69 Delay in identification of Apollo 1 (AS-204)

astronauts

Notes 4 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

11/7/69 Impending appointment as Deputy

Administrator

Notes 5 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

2/12/74 Conversation concerning a manuscript that

Low and Sherrod had been working on

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

CD

23 pgs

&

1 tape

1 CD

13287 &

20511 &

20188 &

13293

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

9/7/72 Apollo management, crew selection,

progression from Mercury to Apollo

Notes

&

CS

4 pgs 13287

&

13293

Only 15 Min. of

tape is Low, rest is

Notes read into


Interview

ed


Remarks

Reel microphone by

Sherrod

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

7/14/70 Opinions of “Journey to Tranquility” Notes 5 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

2/14/70 Fast return of Apollo 8; “unsung heroes”;

redundancy in LM; Mueller; space cameras

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

6/28/72 Review of manuscript in progress “The

Spacecraft O12 Fire”

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, Dr.

George M.

Robert

Sherrod

1/17/70 Seasickness, fogging, colds, 1st and 2nd group of

astronauts, naming craters

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Low, George

M.

Eugene

Emme,

Addison

Rothrock,

and Jay

Holmes

5/1/64 Pres. Kennedy’s tour of MSC in 1963;

transition from Eisenhower to Kennedy Admin;

STG; reports by Wiesner, Goett, Fleming, and

Hornig committees; Lunar landing decision;

LOR mission mode decision; Abe Silverstein

decision to base launch vehicle program on

hydrogen technology; report of LLVPG;

Congressional testimony during Gagarin flight;

development of Saturn launch vehicles


4137

4 copies, 1 bound,

2 with

handwritten

corrections

Low, Dr.

George M.

Edward C.

Ezell

4/30/75 Origins of Apollo/Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)

agreement


6681

Dr. Lucas Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

MSFC CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Lucid,

Shannon

Unnamed

Interviewer


Lundin,

Bruce T.

John Sloop 5/30/74 NACA response to Sputnik, research vs.

military focus, Centaur, hydrogen-oxygen fuel,

AC series

Transcript

&

CS

28 pgs

&

1 tape

1/11/7

1361

&

XII/C/4

19999

2 copies of

transcript, For

“Liquid Hydrogen

as a Propulsion

Fuel, 1945-1959”

Lunney,

Glynn S.

Robert

Sherrod

7/26/72 CS

Reel

1 tape

20 Min

20511 &

13293

Lunney,

Glynn S.

Carol L.

Butler,

Summer

Chick Bergen

2/8/99 Apollo unmanned flights; Apollo flight

controller training; lunar orbit rendezvous

(LOR); Apollo 7 flight; Apollo 13 flight; Apollo

10 flight; Apollo 11 flight; Apollo 12 flight;


19532

For “Before This

Decade is Out”


Interview

ed


Remarks

& Kevin

Rusnak

Apollo and the 1960s; Mission Control Center

(MCC)

Lunney,

Glynn S.

Carol L.

Butler,

Summer

Chick Bergen

& Kevin

Rusnak

2/26/99 Apollo 13 flight; Apollo 13 accident; Apollo

program.


19532

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Lyle, Col. V.

John

Robert

Sherrod

3/8/72 Mueller and Webb, Phillips, Bowman Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287

Lyman,

Alexander S.

Tom Ray 10/12/70 Boeing Technical Integration and Evaluation

(TIE) contract, ACE, LDGSE, \tar for

monitoring engineering support services.


1369

Mackland,

Ray

Robert

Sherrod

10/31/72 Life interest in astronaut contract Notes 2 pgs III/B/2

13287

Telephone

interview

Macneil,

Nicholas

Mark

Damohn

3/10/98 Wrote position paper on NASA for Carter

administration


18954

Maggin,

Bernard

John A. Pitts 10/17/79 Office of Life Science Programs and biomedical

research

Transcript

&

CS

16 pgs

&

1 tape

1/12/3

1411 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Malina, Dr.

Frank

Cargill Hall 10/29/68 Early years of JPL, GALCIT rocket research

group, rocket engines, founding of Aerojet

General


1419

Mallick,

Donald

Richard P.

Hallion

12/10/76 Biographical information Notes 1 pg. I/J/3

6688

Manned

Spacecraft

Center (MSC)

History

Interviews,

A-Ki

Robert

Merrifield

1967-

1970

Interviews with Charles Abbitt, Buzz Aldrin,

David Beckman, Charles Berry, Aleck Bond,

Ray Brazil, John Brinkmann, Martin Byrnes, I.

Edward Campagna, Paul Dembling, Charles

Donlan, Eugene Edmonds, John Eggleston,

Stanley Faber, John Glenn, Paul Haney, John

Hodge, John Holland, and John Kiker re

development of Mission Control Center at

Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC); Gemini and

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/I/3

18993


Interview

ed


Remarks

Apollo astronaut training, operations and post-

mission activities; Mercury flight controllers

and operations at Mercury tracking stations;

institutional, crew support, and scientific issues

aspects of medical operations; design and

development of test facilities at MSC; relocation

of NASA people, supplies and equipment to

Houston; space photography; MSC facilities

and personnel; MSC site selection; Public

Affairs; Congressional relations; Space Task

Group (STG) origins; astronaut selection

criteria and process; photography of Mercury

and Gemini recovery operations; MSC Service

Division; space environment issues; scientific

experiments and measurements; flight

simulation equipment; Mercury tracking

network; inter-center relations; cameras, photo

processing, and laboratory pictures at MSC;

Gemini and Apollo landing and recovery; and

parachute systems and testing

Manned

Spacecraft

Center (MSC)

History

Interviews,

Kr-Z

Robert

Merrifield

1967-

1971

Interviews with Christopher Kraft, Helmut

Kuehnel, Malcolm Lovett, Charles Mathews,

William Parker, Robert Peck, Robert Piland,

John Powers, Clarence Presswood, G. Merritt

Preston, James Prim, Paul Purser, Martin

Raines, Nestor Sandoval, James Satterfield,

Julian Scheer, Abe Silverstein, Donald "Deke"

Slayton, Richard Underwood, and Walter

Williams conducted by Robert Merrifield re

Mission Control Center; flight controllers;

space photography; Manned Spacecraft Center

(MSC) site selection; Space Task Group (STG);

MSC operations; STG relocation to Houston;

Apollo program planning; Public Affairs;

astronauts and the media; White Sands Test

Facility (WSTF); Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

operations; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; spacecraft

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/I/3

18994


Interview

ed


Remarks

checkout; Mercury program; Mercury tracking

network; tracking stations; contractor

relations; Astronaut Office; and NASA and

Department of Defense (DoD) relations

Manke, John Richard P.

Hallion

12/1/76 Biographical information Notes 5 pgs I/J/3

6688

Dr. Maran Unnamed

Interviewer

8/14/86 Halley’s comet CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Mark, Hans Sylvia D.

Fries

9/7/84 Managing technology; comparison of

management at NASA and DoD; aeronautics

research at NASA; funding of long-term

projects in erratic year-to-year budget climate;

space station program; Werner von Braun’s

comparison of exploration of moon and

Antarctica; human drive to explore; military

vs. civilian space programs and impact of

scientific progress

Transcript

&

CS

18 pgs

&

2 tapes

6/6/5

4245

&

XII/C/4

20223&

20224

Mark, Hans Unnamed

Interviewer

10/16/91 Post-Apollo Planning Transcript 30 pgs 6/6/5

4235

Mark, Dr.

Herman

Virginia

Dawson


17 pgs

I/J/3

6688

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Markarian,

Donald J.

Mr. Brooks 12/10/71 Development Of Apollo Lunar Module (LM)

and Apollo 13 malfunction


1432

Maron, Steve Unnamed

Interviewer

9/10/86 Multi Comet Mission CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Martin,

Franklin D.

Adam Gruen 4/13/88 Management structure, National Research

Council, co-op with JSC, Marshall, and

international entities, unmanned vs. manned

Transcript

&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

1/12/4

1437 &

XII/C/3

20225

Martin,

Richard

Virginia

Dawson

6/5/00 Centaur Project; Centaur upper stage; Atlas

launch vehicles; launch vehicle design; General

Dynamics Corp.; Shuttle Centaur


18955

Mason, John

L.

John L. Sloop 4/25/74 Transcript

&

Access restricted,

see Chief


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS Archivist

Mathews,

Charles W.

Vorzimmer 12/2/66 Operations of Gemini Program Transcript 31 pgs 1/12/4

1443

Mathews,

Charles W.

John Logsdon 7/23/70 Post-Apollo planning Transcript

&

CS

&

Reel

26 pgs

&

45 min.

&

7.5 hrs.

1/12/4

1443 &

XII/C/4

20037

& XII/B/2

20007

1st part of

interview on

Naugle and

Newell tape

Mathews,

Charles W.

Robert

Sherrod

2/17/70 Frank Borman; scientists vs. engineers; George

Mueller; Phillips report; program vs. project;

Ed White; astronauts; fuel cell; Bellcomm;

Gemini 6-7; personal memory of Gemini; EVA

Notes 8 pgs III/B/2

13287

Mathews,

Charles W.

Adam Gruen 5/3/85 CS 1 tape XII/C/3

20225

Matranga,

Gene

Mr. Ertell 7/28/71 R&D with Lunar Landing Research Vehicle

(LLRV) at FRC


1446

Matranga,

Gene

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

58 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/B/3

19996

2 copies in file

For “On the

Frontier”

Mattson, Axel

T.

Walter

Bonney

3/29/73 Career with NACA. Wind tunnel research at

LMAL, development of wing flap to recover

from dives, X1 and D558 testing


1449

Mazur,

Daniel

Unnamed

interviewer

3/2/67 Technical operations of Vanguard project at

AMR


1457

McCafferty,

Riley D.

Jim 11/15/69 Apollo astronaut training; Apollo simulators;

spacecraft guidance and navigation; Apollo 8

crew training


19534

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

McCafferty,

Riley D.

Ivan Ertel 1/28/71 Apollo astronaut training; Apollo simulators;

Apollo 9 crew training; Apollo 11 crew

training; Apollo 12 crew training; Apollo 13

flight; Apollo 14 crew training


19534

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

McCormack,

John W.

Eugene

Emme

12/4/71 Before Sputnik, the Space Act, Space History Notes 3 pgs 1/12/1

1385


Interview

ed


Remarks

McCroskey,

Jim

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Ames, Research Scientist, Rotorcraft Research CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

McCurdy,

Richard C.

Robert

Sherrod

12/7/73 How it feels to work for the government

(NASA) instead of working for the private

sector (Shell Oil); McCurdy retired 12/12/73

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

24 pgs 13287 &

20511 &

13293

McDivitt,

James

Jeffrey

Kluger

1992 Apollo 9 flight, flying lunar module (LM), role

in resolving Apollo 13 crisis, Apollo 1 fire,

Apollo program manager duties


8473

McKay, Chris Unknown

Interviewer

1/7/87 Antarctic, Mars CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

McMurtry,

Thomas

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

34 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

McNally,

William

Virginia

Dawson

¾/85 Biographical information Transcript

&

CS

11 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/C/5

McNamara,

Robert

R. Cargill

Hall

3/25/99 National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Origins

and History; anti-satellite weapons;

reconnaissance satellites; “missile gap”


18956

McTigue,

John

Dick Hallion 3/16/79 Lifting bodies and space shuttle design Transcript 45 pgs 1/12/2

1410

Meese, Edwin McCurdy,

Howard


20036

Meiling, Gen.

Richard

Mae M. Link 9/21/53 Role in 20th Air Force Notes 3 pgs 1/11/4

1322

Located in Link

file

Meiling, Gen.

Richard and

General

Twitchell

Mae M. Link 9/22/53 Medical background of 20th Air Force Notes 7 pgs 1/11/4

1322

Located in Link

file with cross ref

to Twitchell

Mengel, John

T.

Unnamed

interviewer

3/17/67 NRL development of Minitrack tracking system

for Vanguard


1462

Merrill, J. D. Hunley 1/17/02 Relationship with Project Paperclip scientists Transcript 16 pages I/J/6


Interview

ed


Remarks

Grayson and experiences at Point Mugu, Regulus

missiles, Jupiter missiles, Polaris missiles,

Special Projects Office

18958

Merrill,

Grayson

Paul Stilwell 10/??/96 Loon missile Transcript 2 pages

(excerpt)

I/J/6

18958

Mettler, Dr.

Ruben F.

Carol L.

Butler

4/7/99 Ramo-Wooldridge Corp; Thompson Ramo

Wooldridge, Inc. (TRW); Guid. Missile

Research Div.; Space Tech Labs (STL); US and

USSR ICBM programs; US IRBM program;

Sputnik; Atlas and Titan ICBMs; Thor and

Minuteman ICBMs; solid vs. liquid propellants;

NASA formation; NASA/USAF/Contractor

relations; Apollo Program

Transcript

&

VHS

&

CS

29 pgs

&

2 tapes

&

80 min

I/J/6

18957

2 VHS copies, 2

copies of CS

Michener Unnamed

interviewer

No date

given

Aerospace and the Future CS 1 tape XII/B/4 3 copies

Microelectro

Mechanical

Systems

(MEMS)

History

Interviews

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

2004-

2005

Microelectro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

history – James B. Angell, John W. Hines,

James Meindl, Kurt Peterson, Lynn M.

Roylance, Harold Sandler, Stephen Terry,

Kensall D. Wise. Integrated circuits;

biosensors; Microlectro Mechanical Systems

(MEMS); nanomachines

Transcripts

&

CDs

Various I/I/2

19507

Contains some

background

material

Miller,

Harold

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

62 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6688 &

XII/C/3

20225

Milliner, J. B. Harold

Wallace

1/25/94 CS 1 tape XII/B/5

19973

For “Wallops

Station and the

Creation of an

American Space

Program”

Milwitzky,

Benjamin

9/12/68 Transcript 126 pgs 1/13/4

1580

Mixen, R.E. Unnamed

interviewer

1/12/67 Langley Interview Reel 4 tapes XII/B/1

20001

& XII/B/2

2 copies


Interview

ed


Remarks

20007

Moeckel,

Wolfgang

Virginia

Dawson


29 pgs

I/J/3

6688

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Molloy,

Robert

Unnamed

interviewer

8/18/75 SE&I contracts for AAP/Skylab, AAP

organization, management, and original plans,

workshops for Skylab, development of MDA,

Air Force MOL vs. NASA AAP, EREP for

Skylab


1498

Mondale,

Walter

Mark

Damohn

7/23/98 Mondale’s role as Vice President during Jimmy

Carter’s administration; Apollo Program;

Space Shuttle Program; space stations; space

policy; Skylab reentry


18959

Moore, Jesse Unnamed

interviewer


20036

Moore,

Michael

Dr. Steven J.

Dick

01/23/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); early work on

HST; role as Program Director for Hubble;

Code S management; decision not to return

HST to earth; options for fifth servicing

mission; third and fourth servicing missions;

planning for fifth servicing mission; risks of a

servicing mission; decision to cancel fifth

servicing mission; NASA commitment to space

science after HST servicing cancellation;

announcement of cancellation

Transcript

&

CS

44 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484

Moore,

William

Robert

Sherrod

11/6/69 Politics around exec. Secretary of the Space

Council

Notes 1 pg. III/B/2

13287

Morgan,

Barbara

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Morgan,

Barbara

Unnamed

interviewer

1/15/86 Mission Watch CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Morgan,

Barbara

Unnamed

interviewer


20036

Morgan, Dr.

Sam

Unnamed

interviewer

9/27/82 Very long baseline interferometer CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Morgan, Unknown Unknown KSC Cargo O and C CS 1 tape XII/C/4


Interview

ed


Remarks

JoAnn Date 20036

Morgan,

JoAnn

Roger

Launius

2/22/02 Role on launch team at Kennedy Space Center

(KSC); Kurt Debus; Wernher von Braun;

launch vehicle testing; Project Mercury;

Mercury 7 astronauts; Saturn launch vehicles;

Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and investigation; end of

the Apollo program and effect on workforce;

Skylab; Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP);

Space Shuttle landing strip; Space Shuttle

program; commercialization


18960

Moritz,

Bernard

Robert

Sherrod

10/10/69 Contract negotiation with NAA and Boeing;

Grumman; CSM contract to NAA?

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Mortimer,

Robert

Courtney

Brooks

12/2/71 Development Of Apollo Lunar Module (LM)

ascent engine


1510

Moser,

Thomas

Adam Gruen 4/28/88 Risk management re: space station, resource

planning, personnel, engineering and program

management

Transcript

&

CS

33 pgs &

1 tape

1/12/7

1513 &

XII/C/3

20225

Moser,

Thomas

Adam Gruen 9/15/89 Departure from NASA, shuttle involvement,

organization of space station planning

Transcript

&

CS

57 pgs

&

1 tape

1/12/7

1513 &

XII/C/3

20225

Mrazek,

William A.

Tom Ray 4/11/73 Peenemunde, launch vehicles and hardware,

design of Centaur and Saturn, liquid hydrogen

as fuel, PERT, system engineering


1518

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Tom Ray (after

1972)

Role of NASA contractors; budget support; top

NASA management (after Dryden)


1522

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Paul P. Van

Riper

12/7/66 “All-up” testing concept Transcript 2 pgs 4/2/3

16203

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

William

Putnam

10/4/66 Gemini program, program management and

organization, Gemini as foundation work for

Apollo: technical, organizational, managerial,

etc.

Transcript

&

Reel

20 pgs

&

1 tape

1/13/1

1522 &

XII/B/1

20001

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Robert

Sherrod

3/29/73 CS

Reel

1 tape

1 tape

III/B/4

13293


Interview

ed


Remarks

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Mr. Putnam

and Mr. Ertel

6/27/67 Apollo Exec. Group, Boeing and GE roles,

Lake Logan agreement


1522

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Unnamed

interviewer


20007

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Robert

Sherrod

3/20/73 Biographical Information; NASA; Apollo;

numerous other subjects

Transcript

&

CD

&

CS & Reel

34 pgs

&

71 min

&

1 tape

13287 &

19535 &

20188 &

20511 &

13294

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Robert

Sherrod

8/19/71 Joe Shea-George Mueller; MSFC, MSC, and

KSC

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Telephone

interview

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Robert

Sherrod

4/21/71 Reorganization of Office of Manned Space

Flight (OMSF); lunar landing as a step in the

human spaceflight program; budget cuts;

James Webb; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and after

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

CD

26 pgs &

1 tape

1 tape

1 CD

13287 &

20511 &

13294 &

19535

2 copies

Tape is very low

and not a normal

track format

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Robert

Sherrod

11/19/69 Scientists vs. engineers; 204 fire; selection for

lunar landing; government vs. private industry

Notes 8 pgs III/B/2

13287

Mueller, Dr.

George E.

Summer

Chick Bergen

8/27/98 Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF); Apollo

program management; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire;

all-up testing; Skylab; resignation from NASA;

human spaceflight and science programs;

Science and Technology Advisory Committee

(STAC)

Transcript

&

CD

25 pgs

&

1 CD

XII/D/5

19535

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Mullaney,

Robert

Courtney

Brooks

12/10/71 Grumman design and development of Apollo

LM, Grumman/NASA/RASPO, LM contract

negotiations and program management


1555

Musgrave,

Story

Andrew

Chaikin

10/27/98 Selection as an astronaut; astronaut office

during the 1970s; astronaut training; Skylab

backup crew; transition to Space Shuttle

program; STS 6 flight; extravehicular activity

(EVA); Inertial Upper Stage (IUS); Tracking

and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS);

Transcript

Disk

CS

127 pgs

&

4 tapes

I/J/6

18961


Interview

ed


Remarks

adjusting to zero gravity; STS 61 flight; STS 80

flight; viewing the earth from space; Space

Shuttle reentry; Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

repair; STS 95 and John Glenn; retirement

from NASA

Mushotsky,

Richard

Unnamed

Interviewer

7/16/86 AXAF, later renamed Chandra CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20036

Myers, Boyd Robert Gang 7/21/70 Site selection for Electronics Research Center

(ERC)

Transcript

&

Reel

28 pgs &

3 ¾ hrs

1/13/2

1565 &

XII/B/2

20007

Myers, Dale

D.

John Logsdon 8/23/77 Space shuttle decision process Transcript

& Disk

39 pgs 2/3/7

7915

Myers, Dale

D.

Ivan Ertel &

Ralph Oakley

5/12/69 Apollo program; North American Aviation

(NAA) and Apollo; Apollo spacecraft design;

impact of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; Apollo

Applications Program (AAP)


19536

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Myers, Dale

D.

James Burke 5/29/79 Apollo management at NAA, systems

engineering, NAA-NASA relations, Apollo 1

fire, Apollo 13 accident, 1970 budget cuts,

pressure to land a scientist on the moon


4306

Copyrighted by

the BBC

Myers, Dale

D.

Unnamed

interviewer

6/28/73 Skylab 1 malfunction and repair mission Transcript 17 pgs 6/6/6

4315

& 7/11/4

7591

Myers, Dale

D.

Robert

Sherrod

3/31/70 Apollo 13 back to NAA 1961 contract Notes 4 pgs III/B/2

13287

Myers, Dale

D.

Robert

Sherrod

3/17/70 Phillips Report, use of oxygen in Apollo

spacecraft, impact of Apollo 1 fire; NAA

coordination with NASA consultants Frank

Borman and Eberhard Rees on Apollo

command and service module

Notes 4 pgs III/B/2

13287

&

PDF

50712

Myers, Dale

D.

Eugene

Emme & Tom

Ray

9/11/70 Apollo histories; Navaho program; Apollo

program management at North American

Aviation (NAA)


19536

For “Before This

Decade is Out”


Interview

ed


Remarks

Myers, Dale

D.

Tom Ray 10/14/70 Apollo program management; Joe Shea;

George Low; relationship between NASA and

contractors


19536

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Myers, Dale

D.

Sylvia Fries

and Lee D.

Saegesser

1/5/88 Myers’ opinion of turning points in NASA’s

history; forecast of space program in next 50

years; “terrorizing contractors”; 1986-1987

“fundamental change in the space program”

Transcript

&

CS

39 pgs

&

1 tape

6/6/6

4307 &

XII/C/4

20224

NACA Oral

History

Interviews

Walter

Bonney

1971-

1974

Interviews with Ira Abbott, John Becker,

Steven Belsley, T. Melvin Butler, J. R.

Dempsey, John Duberg, Ira Eaker, Edward

Garrick, Aubrey Harris, Luke Hobbs, Jerome

Hunsaker, Laurence Loftin, Axel Mattson,

Irving Pinkel, L. Eugene Root, Igor Sikorsky,

Hartley Soule, Floyd Thompson, Richard

Whitcomb, and Charles Zimmerman re

organization of NACA; wind tunnels; airfoils;

missiles; supersonic and swept wing aircraft; X-

1A and X-2; Ames Research Center (ARC) and

stability, control, and automatic control of

aircraft; Dempsey’s role as Deputy Chief of

Staff for Development; Langley Research

Center (LaRC) Loads Division; Comet; DC-3;

Eaker’s career with the Army, Air Force, and

NACA from 1918 to 1944; aerodynamic studies

at LaRC; engines and atmospheric wind tunnel;

Navy bioplane system projects; WWII research

leading up to X-1; Lewis Laboratory; Pre-

WWII research on aircraft and jet engines;

zeppelins; lighter-than-air (LTA) aircraft;

flying boats; U2s; Research at LaRC on flutter,

airfoils, and laminar flow; X-type and F100

Century Series aircraft; development of wing

flap to recover from dives; D558 testing;

aircraft fuels and lubricants; high altitude oil

pumps; crash fire safety; icing problems;

hydrogen fueled engines; NACA designed

airfoils for helicopter blades; legislation

Transcripts various

lengths

9/1/4

19511


Interview

ed


Remarks

allowing NASA to use any govt employees

interested in space program; NASA

organization; transonic flight; hypersonic

flight; X15 aircraft; Thompson’s impressions of

Gus Crowley, Max Munk, Theodore

Theodorsen, Walter Diehl, Carl Greene, Adolf

Busemann, Tony Ferri, Dick Rhode, Clint

Dearborn, Ira Abbott, Ernie Johnson, George

Lewis, Hugh Dryden, Walt Williams, and Joe

Shortal; stability problems with submarines;

and Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing

(VSTOL) aircraft

NACA Oral

History

Project A –

Ca

Sandra

Johnson &

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

2005-

2006

Biographical information, notes, and

transcripts pertaining to interviews with the

following individuals: Joseph Anderson; June

Bahan-Szucs; Benjamin Beam; Norman

Bergrun; Carlton Boletti; Edith Blackman;

John Boshar; John W. Boyd; William Briggs;

and Stefan Cavello

Transcripts

and Notes

various

lengths

9/3/9

19071

NACA Oral

History

Project Cl –

H

Sandra

Johnson &

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

2005-

2006



following individuals: Joseph Cleary; Nathaniel

Cohen; James Crouse; Elmer Davison; George

DeYoung; Rudy Dettwyler; Jo Dibella; Robert

Dietz; Hubert Drake; John Dusterberry;

Richard Ferguson; David Few; Harold Finger;

John Foster; Richard Geye; Robert Graham;

Carl Grigsby; Billye Grymwade; Ralph Hallett,

Jr.; John Harper; and Robert Hunt

Transcripts

and Notes

various

lengths

9/3/9

19072

NACA Oral

History

Project K –

Moor

Sandra

Johnson &

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

2005-

2006



following individuals: Earl Keener; Alan

Kehlet; Eugene Kenner; Richard Kuhn; Leland

Jorgensen; Seymour Lampert; Lionel Levy, Jr.;

Gloria Maricle; Norman Martin; John

McTigue; and Barbara Moorhead

Transcripts

and Notes

various

lengths

9/3/9

19073


Interview

ed


Remarks

NACA Oral

History

Project

Mort – W

Sandra

Johnson &

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

2005-

2006



following individuals: Kenneth Mort; Jason

Moses; Emmet Mossman; William Nesbitt;

Richard Petersen; Victor Peterson; William

Pitts; John Reller, Jr.; Vernon Rossow;

Seymour Salmirs; Richard Scherrer; Milton

Silveira; C. A. “Sy” Syvertson; Lovic Thomas;

Leonard Tower; Barbara Toyne; Stuart Treon;

James White; and Edward Wasson

Transcripts

and Notes

various

lengths

9/3/9

19074

NACA Oral

History

Project

Sandra

Johnson &

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

2005 Audio interviews and transcripts of June C.

Bahan-Szucs, John W. Boyd, Stefan A. Cavallo,

Jo Dibella, Hubert M. Drake, John C.

Dusterberry, Robert W. Graham, Alan B.

Kehlet, Gene A. Kenner, John G. McTigue,

Victor L. Peterson, Milton A. Silveira, and

Clarence A. Syvertson

Transcripts

and audio

on CDs

29 CDs XII/D/4

20194

NACA

Reunion

Attendees

Rebecca

Wright

9/30/05 –

10/2/05

Interviews with the following individuals who

attended the NACA Reunion at Ames Research

Center, June Bahan-Szucs; John W. Boyd;

Stefan A. Cavallo; Josephine Dibella; Hubert

M. Drake; John C. Dusterberry; Robert W.

Graham; Alan B. Kehlet; Gene A. Kenner;

John S. McTigue; Victor L. Peterson; Milton A.

Silveira; C. A. Syvertson

Transcripts various

lengths

9/3/9

19071-

19074

NASA at 50

Oral History

Project

Rebecca

Wright,

Steven Dick

2007-

2008

Interviews with the following individuals for the

NASA at 50 Oral History Project: Michael

Coats; Robert W. Cobb; Shana Dale; Charles

Elachi; William Gerstenmaier; Rex Geveden;

Richard Gilbrech; Michael D. Griffin; Scott

Horowitz; Jaiwon Shin; J.T. Jezierski; David

King; Michael O’Brien; Bryan O’Connor; Bill

Parsons; Scott Pace; Kevin Petersen; Lesa Roe;

Charles Scales; Christopher Scolese; Alan

Stern; Edward Weiler; Woodrow Whitlow; S.

Pete Worden

Transcripts

&

CDs

Various

&

25 CDs

XII/D/3

3986


Interview

ed


Remarks

NASA

Engineers

and the Age

of Apollo &

Space Station

project

Box 1

Sylvia Fries &

A. Michael

McMahon

1984-

1988

Interviews with John Boeckel, Richard Booth,

Richard Bray, Marvin Beatty III, Georgia

Brock, David Bragdon, Nathaniel Cohen, Philip

Culbertson, Christine Darden, Charles Donlan,

William Eldred, Robert Farquahar, Terrence

Finn, Robert Freitag, William Graham, Daniel

Herman, John Hodge, Richard Carlisle,

Charles Katz, Robert Lee III, Alan Levin,

Dudley McConnell, Ann McNair, Seth

Anderson, and Hans Mark

CS 34 tapes XII/C/4

20223

NASA

Engineers

and the Age

of Apollo &

Space Station

project

Box 2

Sylvia Fries &

A. Michael

McMahon

1985-

1988

Interviews with Hans Mark, Thomas Martin,

Ann Merwarth, Dale Myers, Robert Nelson,

John Oberright, Ruben Ramos, Robert Rogallo,

Gilbert Roth, John Scialdone, Roelof Schuiling,

Willis Shapley, Byron Swenson, Robert Trimpi,

George Ware, Joseph Balombin, Harold L.

Coldwater, George Fiedler, Carolyn Huntoon,

Anngienetta Johnson, Lee W. Jones, John

Kuritsky, Lawrence Kissinger, Eugene Kranz,

Charles May, Gustav W. Mordan, Ralph W.

Murphy, David Namkoong, William Robbins,

Fridthof A. Speer, John Stephenson,

Carrington Stewart, Timothy Sullivan, Henry

Williams, and Peggy Yohner

CS 30 tapes XII/C/4

20224

NASA

Origins Self-

Directed Oral

History

Project

Self-Directed 4/98 –

2/99

Self-directed oral histories with C. H. Looney,

Thomas Hagler, Michael Susko, and Nancy

Roman

CS 5 tapes I/J/6

18962

“NASA’s

First A”

Interview

Transcripts

Robert G.

Ferguson

1/05 &

3/05

Interviews with Bobby Berrier, John W. Boyd,

Christine M. Darden, Thomas A. Edwards, &

Victor L. Peterson re aeronautics research

programs at Ames and Langley Research

Centers. Interviews completed as part of

Aeronautic History book contract.

Transcripts

&

CS

various I/I/6


Interview

ed


Remarks

Naugle, Dr.

John E.

David

DeVorkin

8/20/80 Balloon studies of cosmic rays and high energy

physics, NERV program


1566

Naugle, Dr.

John E.

John

Logsdon

7/16/70 Apollo mission planning and AAP Transcript

&

CS

&

Reel

22 pgs

&

45 min

&

1 reel

1/13/3

1566

& XII/C/4

20037

& XII/B/1

20003

On Willis Shapley

reel tape;

On CS with

Newell and

Mathews, Part 1

Naugle, Dr.

John E.

John A. Pitts 2/21/80 Life sciences, chief scientist in OSSA,

disagreements: engineers/bioscientists, gravity

and physiology, life sciences organization under

OSS

Transcript

&

CS

26 pgs

&

1 tape

1/13/3

1566 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Naugle, Dr.

John E.

Unnamed

Interviewer

4/17/78 Development of lunar and planetary missions Transcript 14 pgs 1/13/3

1566

Naugle, Dr.

John E.

Howard

McCurdy

8/17/87 NASA Culture Study (Group A) Transcript 53 pgs I/J/1

6722

Naugle, Dr.

John E.

John Mauer 10/30/84 STS Program Transcript 23 pgs 1/13/3

16789

Neal, Roy Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Nelson, Pinky Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Morning Edition CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Neubert,

Erich

Tom Ray 4/4/73 Transition from ABMA to NASA, organization

of NSFC Saturn development Teams and

development of Saturn 5 launch vehicle


1574

Dr. Newburn Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Comet Halley CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Newell, Dr.

Homer

Monte

Wright

3/14/74 NASA organization and McKinsey study; space

science org and policy, life science program;

balance bet. Engineering and science; scientist-

astronauts for Apollo Lunar landings; Ranger

Project; NASA coop with academia; NASA HQ

relations with field centers; long range

planning; NASA role in services and research,

Newell’s contribution to NASA science


4494


Interview

ed


Remarks

program; PSG activities, development of ATS;

benefits of working as a scientist in federal

government.

Newell, Dr.

Homer

Eugene

Emme and

Alex Roland

1/7/74 Atmospheric research by NRL Rocket Sonde

Research Branch; HATV; establishment of

RSRP or “V2 Panel:’ NACA policy on space

research and satellite development; NACA

Subcommittee on the Upper Atmosphere;

Project Vanguard; establishment Of NASA

space science program and GSFC and

management of its contractors; PR ploy,

Project Kangaroo

Transcript

&

Transcript

&

CS

37 pgs

&

36 pgs

&

1 tape

6/7/1

4494

&

I/J/2

13482

&

XII/C/4

19995

2 copies of

transcript, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Newell, Dr.

Homer

Charles

Benson

7/21/75 OSSA manned space flight experiments; AOSO

experiments, cancellation, and consolidation

into ATM; manned vs. unmanned space flight;

OSSA reactions to Skylab and Voyager budget

cuts; comparison of USAF MOL and Skylab

projects; OMSF-OSSA AAP experiments;

White House support for space program


4494

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Tom Ray 12/23/71 Silverstein committee decision on hydrogen

technology for launch vehicles and dev of

Saturn class vehicle; Centaur and Juno launch

vehicle programs; NAS Space Science Board

support for manned space flight; cancellation of

Apollo 18, 19, and 20 missions


4494

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

John Logsdon

and Nat

Cohen

7/15/70 PSG and STG impact on planning for space

shuttle and station programs and planning for

manned Mars mission

Transcript

&

Reel

CS

28 pgs

&

1 side

½ tape

6/7/1

4494

& XII/B/1

20002

&

XII/C/4

20037

2 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

On Naugle tape;

CS has Mathews,

part 1 and Naugle

interviews

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

John A. Pitts 2/22/80 Organization of Life Sciences div.; coordination

of projects b et. OSSA, OART, Office of Life

Sciences, and OMSF; Life Sciences Study Task

Group; Biosatellite Project; Glass study on

Transcript

&

CS

27 pgs

&

1 tape

6/7/1

4495 &

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”


Interview

ed


Remarks

manned space flight medical, bioscience,

exobiology, and space physics research

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Edward Ezell 5/25/77 Space science program initiation for IGY;

planetary exploration; NASA position with

scientific community on Mars exploration;

NASA Space Science Steering Committee and

Steering Group on Lunar, Planetary, and

Interplanetary Exploration; Mariner, Ranger,

and Voyager projects, small vs. large scale

missions; political management of flight

experiments; launch vehicles for space science

missions; Life Sciences Program and Space

Science Board


4495

Newell, Dr.

Homer

Eugene

Emme and

Charles

Atkins

7/27/66 NASA's relationship with NAS Space Science

Board, space research by NACA and NRL,

activities of IGY national committee

Notes

Transcript

6 pgs 6/7/1

4494

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Robert

Sherrod

7/22/71 Engineers Vs. Scientists CS

Reel

&

Transcript

1 tape

1 reel

&

21 pgs

20511 &

13294 &

13287

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Robert

Sherrod

2/13/73 Scientists battle to continue moon exploration

beyond Apollo 13

Reel

III/B/4

13293

Probably a

transcript exists

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Robert

Sherrod

1/23/69 Medical and psychological results of space

flight; Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, Surveyor;

NERVA

Notes 3 pgs III/B/2

13287

Newell, Dr.

Homer

Eugene

Emme and

Cargill Hall

3/5/68 Ranger Project history; Problems with JPL

management of Ranger Project

Notes 3 pgs 6/7/1

4494 &

3/4/5

5370

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Eugene

Emme and

Cargill Hall

3/5/68 Notes Acess restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

David

Compton

4/21/76 Impact of negative comments by scientists on

manned space flight; impact of engineering

requirements of scientific experiments on crew


4495


Interview

ed


Remarks

safety; diversion of funds from science to

manned space flight; science in Apollo and

Skylab missions; scientist-astronauts;

cancellation and * assimilation of AOSO

experiments into ATM; OSS involvement in

post-Apollo planning; reliability vs. costs;

coordination of recommendations of internal

and external advisory groups, PSAC, NAS

Space Science Board on AAP science

Newell, Dr.

Homer

Richard

Hirsh

7/17 and

10/20/80

Work at NRL during WWII; NRL upper

atmospheric research, RSRP/ “V2 Panel”;

Vanguard satellite project, International

Geophysical Year (IGY) program; reactions to

Sputnik launch; creation of NASA; dev,

management, and funding of space science

programs; relationship bet. Science and

manned space flight; international coop; OAO

project; long term planning; impact of Vietnam

War and economy on space missions; planning

for Space Telescope (Hubble), space shuttle,

and planetary exploration projects


4495

Copyrighted by

the Center for

History of

Physics, American

Institute of

Physics

Newell, Dr.

Homer E.

Robert

Sherrod

2/9/73 CS &

Reel

1 tape

1 tape

20511 &

13294

Nichols, Mark Walter

Bonney

3/29/73 Research at LMAL on aerodynamics,

propellers, aircraft engines, wind tunnels,

development of dive recovery flap, supersonic

flight


1578

Nicks, Oran

W.

R. Cargill

Hall

8/26/68 Ranger Project; Ranger and Apollo program;

Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Agena launch

vehicle; project management


18963

Nicks, Oran;

Benjamin

Milwitzky;

Lee Scherer

Members of

NAPA

9/12/68 Lunar orbiter and surveyor projects, lunar

exploration, contract selection and

management, program management,

experiment selection, NASA/JPL/Hughes

Aircraft Company


1580

Listed as oral

history – may not

be correct.

Nicogossian, Unnamed 2/19/86 Life Sciences Spinoffs CS 1 tape XII/C/4


Interview

ed


Remarks

Dr. Arnauld Interviewer 20037

North,

Warren

Eugene

Emme and

James

Grimwood

8/27/73 Early NASA organization, astronaut selection,

hAtlas and Redstone launch vehicles, SAM

control, MSC as manned space flight training

center, concern: radiation on astronauts


1608

Norton,

Frederick H.

Unnamed

interviewer


20002

Norton, Lt.

Col. John A.

Mae M. Link 8/13/51 Activation of 1st forward medical air evacuation

flight and 1ST epidemological flight

Notes 2 pgs 1/11/4

1322

Located in Link

file

Nunziato,

Colonel

Ralph


&

CS

17 pgs

Part of 3

tapes

I/J/3

6688

&

XII/C/3

19999

Ocean Color

History

Interviews

James Acker 2008-

2009

Interviews with Mark Abbott, Alan Holmes,

Richard Barber, William Barnes, Janet

Campbell, Cleave Feldman, William

Wallschlaeger, McConaughey, Vincent

Salomonson, Stan Wilson, Robert Woodruff,

and Charles Yentsch re remote sensing and

ocean color

MP3 files

on CD

1 CD X/A/1

59390

O’Connor,

Bryan

Unnamed

Interviewer

Date

Unknown

Chairman, Manned Space Flight, Safety Panel CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

O’Connor,

Bryan

Dr. Steven J.

Dick

11/01/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); role as Chief

Safety and Mission Assurance Officer; risk of

HST servicing vs ISS mission; safety issues;

Probabilistic Risk Assessment; shuttle mission

risk; why O’Connor became an astronaut

Transcript

&

CS

23 pgs

&

1 tape

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484

Odom, James

B.

Unnamed

Interviewer

Date

Unknown

Manager of External Tank Pros. Office at

MSFC – Lightweight Tank

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Odom, James

B.

Robert Smith 2/26/85 Transcript Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Odom, James

B.

Adam Gruen 1/6/89 Summer 1988 funding release, congressional

approval of budget, writing acceptable budget

Transcript

&

37 pgs

&

1/13/7

1629


Interview

ed


Remarks

without cutting necessary expenses CS 1 tape & XII/C/3

20225

O’Donnell,

Kenneth

Robert

Sherrod

5/13/71 White House relationship with NASA: Kennedy

and Webb

Transcript 2 pgs III/B/3

13288

Telephone

interview is in

note form

O’Keefe, Sean Dr. Steven J.

Dick

4/22/04 Influence of Columbia (STS-107) accident and

Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB)

recommendations on decision to cancel fifth

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing

mission, plan for announcement of decision,

leak of decision after President George W.

Bush’s announcement of the Vision for Space

Exploration (VSE), revised announcement of

cancellation, public reaction to cancellation of

HST servicing mission, difficulties with Space

Shuttle Return to Flight (RTF) efforts


O’Keefe, Sean Dr. Steven J.

Dick

10/29/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); how decision to

cancel fifth servicing mission reached; why

decision was timed as it was; was decision

justified; value of HST; public view of decision

to cancel; robotic servicing mission; lessons

learned from cancellation

Transcript

&

CS

34 pgs

&

1 tape

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484

Olson, Dr.

Walter T.

John Sloop 5/30/74 Early rocket fuel (1948 on), suggestions to

NACA for rocket engine propulsion, Project

ZIP, engine development

Transcript

&

CS

22 pgs

&

1 tape

1/13/7

1635

& XII/E/4

19489

Olson, Dr.

Walter T.

John Sloop 7/11/74 Education and career, NACA 1942 on, Project

ZIP, propulsion research, physicists and

chemists, hydrogen vs. boron hydrides

Transcript

&

CS

65 pgs

&

1 tape

1/13/7

1635

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Olson, Dr.

Walter T.

Virginia

Dawson

7/16/84 Langley, altitude effect on combustion, change

from research to mission-specific, other

industry competition with government research


1635

Interview is in 2

parts

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Ordin, Paul

M.


&

74 pgs

1 tape

I/J/3

6688


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS & XII/E/4

19489

Ordway,

Fredrick I.

Steve Dick 2/14/05 NASA career highlights Transcript

CS

26 pgs I/I/4

19828

Ostrach,

Simon

Virginia

Dawson


28 pgs

I/J/3

6688

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Ostrander,

Maj. Gen.

Don

Unnamed

interviewer

7/10/72 OLVP, USAF/ NASA coop., ABMA, OLVP/

Office of Space Flight Programs coordination,

launch site selection, AMR, MSFC, Abe

Silverstein and Von Braun


1645

Ostro, Steven

J.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Ostro, Steven

J.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

O’Sullivan,

William J.

Edward

Morse

8/28/64 Langley Research Center, Echo 1 satellite Transcript

&

Reel

72 pgs

&

2 tapes

1/14/1

1646 &

XII/B/1

20002

Ottinger,

Wayne

Ivan Ertel 7/27-

28/71

LLRV development and test flights at FRC and

Ellington AFB, X15 Project and test flights, Joe

Walker and Neil Armstrong as test pilots for

LLRV, LLRV data for development of V/STOL


1650

Overacker,

William E.

Roger D.

Launius

12/18-

19/89 &

1/3/90

Air Force career; Military Airlift Command;

Israeli airlift; 1978 evacuation of Iran; Lebanon

civil war and Beirut embassy bombing; airlift

operations


18964

Page,

Thornton

Mr. Swenson 4/30/71 Apollo history: assignment on instruction to

astronauts’ schedule. For Lunar landing flights

on astronomy, UV camera to study

interplanetary gases and solar wind from the

moon, NASA MSC astronomy program,

changes in astronomy because of space

program


1655


Interview

ed


Remarks

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Mike Douglas 7/15/69 Interview with Roy Neal? 3” Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20009

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Eugene

Emme

9/3/70 Presence of Rev. Ralph Albernathy at Apollo 11

launch; reaction to speech by Sen. Edward

Kennedy at Clarke Univ. attacking the space

program; lack of enthusiasm or support from

Kennedy family for linkage of Pres. Kennedy

with Apollo 11 lunar landing; Apollo 11

splashdown and presence of Pres. Nixon;

plaque on Apollo 11 LM; naming Apollo 11

Command and Service Module and Lunar

Module; NASA Apollo 11 dinner in Calif.;

prediction of Soviet manned landing on moon;

speculation on “real” mission of Luna 15

Probe; choice of space shuttle over manned

Mars landing; prediction of US decline and

Soviet prominence in space

Transcript

&

Reel

33 pgs

&

1 tape

6/3/1

4186

&

XII/B/2

20007

3 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections, 1

copy sent to Dr.

Paine

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

T. Harri

Baker,

Johnson

Library

3/25/69 &

4/10/69

Appointment as NASA Dep. Admin. And

relationship with Webb; Webb’s retirement;

appointment as Acting Admin.; Apollo 8

decision, mission, and celebrations; NASA

FY1970 budget; relationship with President

and Mrs. Johnson; transition from Johnson to

Nixon Administrations involvement and

interest in urban affairs

Transcripts 29 pgs 6/3/1

4185

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

John Logsdon 9/3/70 Instructions for development of innovative

plans for post Apollo program; STG and role of

Lee DuBridge and VP Agnew; instructions to

von Braun to prep a manned Mars mission plan

for submission to STG and their reaction; cuts

in NASA FY1971 budget by BoB and White

House


4185

&

XII/B/1

20003

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

James Burke 5/14/79 Congressional support for Apollo Program;

Apollo 6 test flight; Apollo 8 decision; Webb’s

retirement; Nixon Administration; debate

between scientist and engineers in purpose and


4185

Copyrighted by

the BBC


Interview

ed


Remarks

planning for Apollo lunar landing; cuts in

Apollo Program; relationship with BoB; Soviet

Phobos probe and mission to Mars

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

John Logsdon

and Nat

Cohen

8/12/70 STG and post-Apollo planning; von Braun’s

concept for manned Mars landing and reaction

to it; possibilities for increased international

coop; relationship with Pres. Nixon; NASA

FY1970-71 budget process and constraints on

program

Transcript

&

Reel

21 pgs

&

2 ¾ hrs

6/3/1

4185

&

XII/B/1

20002

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Eugene

Emme

7/9/70 Joe Shea’s criticism of Apollo Program;

negotiations on international coop and use of

space shuttle; congressional debate on NASA

FY1971 appropriation and NASA lobbying

efforts; lack of public support for space

program; GAO report on contract selection for

ATS; trip to Europe to discuss European

participation in US Space Program; prep and

commence. Address at Worcester Polytechnic

on “squareland” and “potland”; development

of supercritical wing


4186

&

XII/B/2

20007

3 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections, 1

copy sent to Dr.

Paine

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

7/14/? Reel 2 tapes XII/B/1

20002

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Eugene

Emme

8/3/70 Paine’s resignation as NASA Administrator;

Webb’s resignation and White House

“appointment” of Paine as Acting Admin.;

Pres. Johnson and Pres. Nixon roles in space

program; transition from Johnson to Nixon

Admins; relationship with Lee DuBridge, Bob

Mayo, and Peter Flanigan; role of VP Agnew

and NASC


4186

&

XII/B/2

20007

3 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Arthur

Garratt

ca. 6/75 Comparison of manned lunar landing and

development of space colonies with discovery

of the New World by Norsemen and later

colonization by Europeans; test pilot/astronauts

vs. scientist/ astronauts; cost of technological


4185

Copyrighted by

the BBC


Interview

ed


Remarks

progress and challenge of a “crisis” situation;

future of space exploration (space shuttle, space

station, earth resource satellites, Pioneer);

international space program; impact of

technology on society

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Robert

Sherrod

10/7/71 Apollo program, General Electric; on serving

as Administrator, NASA budget, other subjects

Transcript

&

Reel

&

CS

&

CD

18 pgs

&

1 tape

&

2 CDs

13288 &

20511

&

19537 &

13294

James Webb joins

in unexpectedly

for last half of

interview.

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

Robert

Sherrod

9/10/70 Paine disobeyed Webb on leaving lunar orbit

option for C-prime mission (Apollo 8), Frank

Borman, Russians, Skylab, Julian Scheer of

PAO on Apollo 11 book. Danger of space flight,

Apollo program, working with White house on

appointment of deputy administrator, speech at

Worcester, Paris, space station, Fairchild-Hiller

contract

Notes

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

3 pgs

45 pgs

&

1 hr.

40 min.

13288

&

20511

&

13294

Paine,

Thomas O.

Robert

Sherrod

10/13/69 Scientists vs. engineers Notes 5 pgs III/B/3

13288

Paine,

Thomas O.

Robert

Sherrod

1/23/69 Nixon appointing NASA administrator, lunar

module, space station, Russian space program,

C-prime decision, President Johnson

Notes 4 pgs III/B/3

13288

Paine,

Thomas O.

Robert

Sherrod

5/13/69 Problem of the cities, vision for the future,

manned orbiting laboratory, becoming

Administrator, astronaut secretary of the Space

Council, public affairs censoring mission

broadcasts, MIT dissidents

Notes 5 pgs III/B/3

13288

Paine,

Thomas O.

Robert

Sherrod

11/5/68 Military service, politics, education,

background, recruitment to NASA, events

leading up to C-prime mission, lunar orbit for

Apollo 8 decision, reactions after six weeks on

the job

Notes 8 pgs III/B/3

13288

Paine, Robert 8/14/70 Paine’s Time at NASA, Apollo 13, Saturn V, Notes & 4 pgs & 13288 & For “Before This


Interview

ed


Remarks

Thomas O. Sherrod Lunar Module, astronauts, cosmonauts Transcript

& CD

&

CS

Reel

44 pgs &

73 min

&

1 tape

1 tape

&

2 CDs

20511 &

20007 &

20188 &

13294

Decade is Out”

Paine, Dr.

Thomas O.

John Logsdon

and Nat

Cohen

8/70 Post-Apollo planning Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20007

Paine,

Thomas O.

11/11/69 Meet the Press – Apollo 11 Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20006

Copyrighted

Paine,

Thomas O.

11/16/69 Meet the Press Reel XII/B/1

20002

Copyrighted

Painter, Wen Richard

Hallion

8/8/77 Transcript

&

CS

32 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6689

& XII/B/3

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

Painter, Wen Joe Weil 10/7/? CS 2 pgs XII/B/2

Pannell, Bob Unnamed

interviewer

No date Biographical information CS 60 min I/J/3

6689

Parkinson,

Claire

Jennifer

Ross-Nazzal

6/26/08 National Center for Atmospheric Research

(NCAR); sea ice modeling; sea ice and global

warming; climate change; Al Gore, Jr.; Aqua

satellite; Earth Observing System (EOS); North

Pole expedition; earth science outreach

activities

Transcript

&

CDs

33 pgs

&

2 CDs

I/I/4

19861

Parkinson,

John

Unnamed

interviewer

12/20/66 NACA career, seaplane hull design, NACA

during WWII, testing moving ground belt for

cars in wind tunnels for Ford Motor Co.

Notes 2 pgs 1/14/2

1659

Parks, Robert

J.

Don Bane 6/18/87 Hiring by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL);

Corporal missile; rocket guidance systems;

Sergeant missile; JPL Planetary Program;

Mariner Venus


18965


Interview

ed


Remarks

Parsons, John Unnamed

interviewer

6/16/67 NACA career, design of 19 foot pressure wind

tunnel

Notes 2 pgs 1/14/2

1661

Paules,

Granville

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

66 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6689 &

XII/C/3

20225

Paup, John

W.

Ivan Ertel 6/7/66 Early management and organization of Apollo

Program at N. Amer. Aviation, NACA’s

proposal, decision of LOR using LEM over

direct landing, coordination bet. Government.

And NAA employees


1665

Payton, Gary Andrew

Butrica

8/20/97

&

10/12/99

Transcripts

&

CS

Pennino,

Walter A.

Lee Saegesser

and Steve

Garber

2/19/97 SSI, astronaut PR tours with Fred Haise, Neil

Armstrong, and John Glenn; Apollo 15 crew

stamp scandal, working relationship with

Julian Scheer, memories of Deke Slayton and

Walter Cronkite, audience with Pope Paul VI,

meeting cosmonauts in USSR, Celetis

commercial launch program, Apollo 11 world

tour

Transcript

& 3-1/2”

disk

&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

1/14/2

1678

&

XII/C/4

20037

Petrone, Dr.

Rocco

Various 5/19/70 Apollo program; program management; Hugh

Dryden; “all-up” testing


19538 &

1691

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Petrone, Dr.

Rocco

A. R. Jones Tape

received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 accident and Skylab 2 rescue mission Transcript 6 pgs 1/14/3

1692

& 7/11/4

7591

Petrone, Dr.

Rocco

James Burke 5/22/79 Development, construction and testing of

Saturn 5 launch vehicle; position as launch

director during Apollo; responsibilities of

Mission Control team, cooperation with

contractors, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire


1692

Copyrighted by

BBC


Interview

ed


Remarks

Petrone, Dr.

Rocco

Tom Ray and

Eugene

Emme

9/17/70 NASA organization, management of centers,

control over contractors, position as launch

director, integration of contractors and

government workers to form a team

Transcript

&

Reel

122 pgs

&

3 ¾ hrs

1/14/3

1692 &

XII/B/1

20002

Petrone, Dr.

Rocco

Tom Ray 5/25/72 Management of Apollo Program, cooperation

with Air Force and contractors


1692

Petrone, Dr.

Rocco

Robert

Sherrod

9/25/70

7/30/71

7/29/74

9/26/74

10/08/74

Petrone’s position as Apollo program director,

Apollo 13, Bob Gilruth, Saturn V, President

Kennedy including his idea of partnering with

the Russians, Boeing, GE, computers, Petrone’s

work at KSC, spacecraft statistics, parents,

Apollo 9 and Apollo 10

Transcripts

&

CS

&

Reels

Various

&

7 tapes

&

7 reels

III/B/3

13288

&

20511 &

13294

07/30/71 interview

only in note form;

09/26/74 &

10/08/74

interviews include

notes

Pettengill,

Gordon H.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Pettengill,

Gordon H.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Pettengill,

Gordon H.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Petynia,

William

Joe

Guilmartin &

John Mauer

9/9/85 Space Shuttle design; Space Shuttle external

tanks; Space Shuttle orbiters; Grumman

Corporation study contract; delta wing vs

straight wing; Space Shuttle Main Engines

(SSMEs)


18966

Phillips, Jesse

L.

Self-directed 7/5/98 NACA and NASA engineering from 1947 to

1979; Biographical info, USMC career, Beijing,

engineering design training, MSC, 1962

engineering drawing manual for MSC, Zero G

Vacuum Weld Test Chamber, other projects

Typed

narrative

10 pgs &

21 pgs

XII/D/2 Includes related

material

Phillips, Lt.

Gen. Samuel

C.

Robert

Sherrod

6/12/69 Apollo 11 launch decision CS

&

Reel

1 tape

&

1 tape

20511

&

13294

Phillips, Lt.

Gen. Samuel

Thomas W.

Ray & Loyd

7/22/70 Minuteman program; assignment to NASA;

program management; US Air Force (USAF)


19539

For “Before This

Decade is Out”


Interview

ed


Remarks

C. S. Swenson officers in NASA; Apollo program; “all-up”

testing; Phillips Report; Apollo systems

integration; Apollo 8 flight; NASA –

Congressional relations; Saturn launch vehicle

S-2 program at North American Aviation

(NAA); NASA – contractor relations

&

1/14/4

1701

Phillips, Lt.

Gen. Samuel

C.

Thomas W.

Ray & Loyd

S. Swenson

9/25/70 US Air Force (USAF) career; Apollo program

management; Apollo spacecraft design; NASA

– contractor relations; North American

Aviation (NAA); Apollo mission operations;

Apollo program costs; role of Bellcomm


19539

&

1/14/4

1701

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Phillips, Lt.

Gen. Samuel

C.

Robert

Sherrod

7/2/71 Relationship of program managers in the

centers during Apollo Program, North

American investigation, selection of astronaut

crews, Pentagon Papers, Phillips’ time at NASA

and in the military, the Phillips Report.

Transcript

&

CS

&

Reel

28 pgs

&

2 tapes

&

2 reels

13288

& 20511

& 13294

Phillips, W.

Hewitt

Ivan Ertel 6/21/66 Langley Research Center role in Apollo

Program, LOR, reentry studies, LM and Apollo

docking, Lunar Landing Research Facility


1705

Pickering, Dr.

William H.

Cargill Hall 8/20/68 NASA/JPL relationship, Ranger Project, Agena

launch vehicles, “Red Socks” proposal


1708

Pickering, Dr.

William H.

R. Cargill

Hall

11/25/75 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and relations

with NASA; Project Ranger; spacecraft testing


18967

Pickering, Dr.

William H.

Michael Q.

Hooks

10/20,

11/1,

11/13,

11/14,

12/12/89

Biographical information; Jet Propulsion

Laboratory (JPL) rocket research during

World War II; Corporal missile; Sergeant

missile; role as director of JPL; International

Geophysical Year (IGY); Sputnik 1; Explorer

1; relationship between NASA and JPL; Project

Ranger; program management


18968

Piland,

Robert O.

Robert

Sherrod

1/7/72 Personal info, NASA career, Max Faget work

as Mercury and Apollo capsules, Faget’s

suggestion of submariners over aviators for

astronauts, work with STG on Apollo Program

studies, LOR over direct descent landing, LM’s

propulsion system as backup for SPS during

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

32 pgs

&

1 tape

2 tapes

1713

&

13289

&

20511

&


Interview

ed


Remarks

trans- Lunar and trans- Earth flight, later used

as guide during Apollo 13 accident

13294

Piland,

Robert O.

Robert

Sherrod

12/3/71 Biographical info; project vs. program; early

Apollo; Faget and Gilruth; NAA; Charles Frick

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13289

Pinkel, Ben John L.

Sloop

2/1/76 CS 1 tape XII/E/4

19489

Pinkel, Ben Virginia

Dawson


24 pgs

I/J/3

6689

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Pinkel, Irving

I.

John L. Sloop 1/30/76 CS 1 tape XII/E/4

19489

Pinkel, Irving

I.

Virginia

Dawson

1/30/85 Supersonic flight and propulsion research at

Lewis Lab., technology transfer and need for

government research to aid industry, airplane

crash and fire tests, NACA vs. NASA, Apollo 1

fire, de-icing research

Transcript

24 pgs

1/14/4

1715

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Pinkel, Irving

I.

Walter

Bonney

9/22/73 NACA career, aircraft fuels, lubricants, high

altitude oil pumps, crash fire safety, icing

problems, and hydrogen fueled engines


1715

Piper, Dr.

Franciszek

David Cole 1992 Nazi concentration camps Videotape 1 tape XII/D/1

16407

Pivirotto,

Donna

Adam L.

Gruen

8/25/86 Biographical information CS 180 min I/J/3

6689

2 tapes

Planetary

Astronomy

Oral History

Interviews

Ronald

Schorn

1993 Interviews with Thomas Barnes, Rita Beebe,

Jay Bergstrahl, Peter Boyce, Bill Brunk, Joseph

Chamberlain, Dale Cruikshank, Fred Franklin,

Robert Havlen, William Jeffries, Brian

Marsden, William Sinton, Hyron Spinrad,

Larry Trafton, Wesley Traub, Robert Tull, and

Fred Whipple re planetary astronomy;

MacDonald Observatory; Harlen Smith;

Jupiter; NASA funding for planetary

astronomy; Lowell Observatory; status of

planetary astronomy as a discipline; public

interest in planetary astronomy; E.C. Slipher;

Percival Lowell; Mars; Gerard Kuiper; NASA

ground-based planetary astronomy program;

Transcripts

&

CS

various

lengths

I/I/4

19862

&

XII/C/3

12681


Interview

ed


Remarks

Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF); Mauna Kea

observatories; decline of planetary astronomy

in the early 20th century; spacecraft versus

ground-based observation; Voyager; Neptune;

planetary infrared astronomy; Yerkes

Observatory; Io; Triton; Saturn; American

Astronomical Society Division for Planetary

Sciences; Kitt Peak Observatory; celestial

mechanics; asteroids; John Strong; planetary

radio astronomy; Mars Committee; Venus;

Mercury; Carl Sagan; Spectroscopic Survey

Telescope; meteors; comets; Smithsonian

Astrophysical Observatory

Plotkin,

Henry

Adam L.

Gruen

7/22/86 Biographical information CS 90 min I/J/3

6689

Plum Brook

History

Mark Bowles,

Virginia

Dawson, & Jim

Polnchenzki

Various

dates

from 1/02

through

4/02

Interviews with Jim Blue, Earl Boitel, Bert

Davis, Robert Defayette, Harold Finger, Clyde

Greer, Hap Johnson, and Myrna Steel re Plum

Brook nuclear reactor and rocket engine test

facility at Lewis Research Center (LeRC).

Transcripts Various

lengths

PDF

35971 -

35978

Potate, John

S.

Tom Ray 6/6/72 Project management and development of

Saturn launch vehicles and complexes, NASA

management organization, GE integration

contract, Apollo 1 fire, contractor structure and

management, NASA centers and HQ, SARP

and PERT systems


1729

Powell,

Luther

Adam Gruen 11/87 Project and designs to lengthen Shuttle mission

time, EDO, Space Station Task Force, CEG

personnel, organization and management,

political nature: numerous government

agencies had say against Space Station

Transcript

&

CS

22 pgs

&

1 tape

1/14/6

1730

&

XII/C/3

20225

Powell,

Walter


&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6689

& XII/E/4

19489

With

contributions of

Cargill Hall

“Powering Harry 1984- Interviews with David Acheson, Robert Allnutt, Notes Various I/I/6


Interview

ed


Remarks

Apollo”

James Webb

Biography

Interviews

Lambright 1992 Lee Atwood, Lucius Battle, James Beggs, David

Bell, Walter Boone, Frank Borman, Warren

Burger, Richard Callaghan, Clark Clifford,

Martin Collins, Michael Collins, John Cooper,

Bob Corell, Edgar Cortright, Albert Curgian,

Hiden Cox, Paul Dembling, James Dewar,

Matthew Dickinson, James Elms, George Elsey,

Harry Finger, Robert Freitag, Arnold Frutkin,

Roswell Gilpatric, Cargill Hall, Mack Herring,

John Hodge, Donald Hornig, Neil Hosenball,

Philip Hughes, Harris Hull, Carlisle Humelsine,

Lyndon Johnson, Sam Kernell, Breene Kerr,

John Kirkpatrick, Raymond Kline, Sylvia

Kraemer, Roger Launius, Charles Lewis,

William Lilly, John Logsdon, Charles Mathews,

Howard McCurdy, Robert McNamara, William

McWilliams, Bernard Moritz, Emma Morrison,

George Mueller, Thomas Murphy, Mike Nash,

John Naugle, Allan Needell, Richard Neustadt,

Paul Nitze, Hilliard Paige, Thomas Paine,

Rocco Petrone, Ronald Philips, William

Pickering, Don Price, Arthur Raymond, S.

Dillon Ripley, Duane Roller, David

Rosenbloom, Julian Scheer, Charles Schultze,

Nina Scrivener, Lee Saegesser, Robert

Seamans, Deborah Shapley, Willis Shapley,

Robert Sherrod, Abe Silverstein, George

Simpson, John Simpson, Margaret Chase

Smith, Elmer Staats, Rich Stephens, Don Stone,

Harry S. Truman, Morrison Tucker, Alan

Ullberg, Lawrence Vogel, Dwight Waldo, Bailey

Webb, Fred Webb, H. Gorman Webb, James E.

Webb, Patsy Webb, Sally Webb, Olive

Wharton, Jerome Wiesner, David Williamson,

Robert Young, and Elizabeth Zoernid

lengths 7106

Pratt, Perry

W.


&

43 pgs

&

I/J/3

6689


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS 2 tapes & XII/C/4

19489

Press, Dr.

Frank

Not supplied 6/18/98 role as the director of the Office of Science and

Technology Policy (OSTP) during Carter’s

administration; recommendation of Robert

Frosch as NASA administrator; Space Shuttle

program


18969

Price, Robert Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Purser, Paul

E.

Mike Keller 6/26/67 Langley Research Center (LaRC); WWII draft

exemptions for NACA employees, NACA

wartime staffing and research

Transcript

& Reel

34 pgs &

1 tape

1/14/6

1748 &

XII/B/1

20002

Putnam,

William

Robert

Sherrod

2/18/70 George Mueller; Webb vs. Seamans Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289

Telephone

interview

Putt, Lt. Gen.

Donald L.

John Sloop 4/30/74 Early career in Pursuit, early NASA/USAF

cooperation and personnel, early satellites,

German research and researchers, hydrogen

research, U-2, OST origins, B-17, Suntan

Transcript

&

CS

61 pgs

Part of 3

tapes

1/14/6

1751

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Putt, Lt. Gen.

Donald L.

Walter

Bonney

9/25/74 NACA, leadership of Hunsaker and Doolittle,

NACA and USAF cooperation


1451

Rae,

Randolph

John L. Sloop 4/15 and

16/74

Miscellaneous Biographies - For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959”

Transcript

&

CS

67 pgs

1 tape

I/J/3

6689

& XII/C/4

19999

Rafel,

Norman

Tom Ray 3/23/72 Apollo Program, management and dev of

Saturn 5 launch vehicle, OMSF, program

management and use of PERT vs. SARP,

management styles of B. Holmes and G.

Mueller, contract management


1758

Raines,

Martin L.

Robert

Sherrod

1/18/72 Gilruth’s retirement Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Ramo, Dr.

Simon

Carol L.

Butler

4/6/99 Ramo-Wooldridge Corp; Thompson Ramo

Wooldridge, Inc. (TRW); Guided Missile

Research Div.; Space Tech. Labs; ICBM

Transcript

&

VHS

46 pgs

&

120 min

I/J/6

18971

2 VHS, 2 CS, 2

Betacam


Interview

ed


Remarks

programs – US and USSR; H-Bomb; SAC;

Sputnik; Atlas ICBM; Titan ICBM; Thor

IRBM; NASA formation;

NASA/USAF/contractor relations; future

civil/military/government space relations

&

CS

&

Betacam

&

120 min

Ramo, Dr.

Simon

Martin

Collins

6/27/88

&

1/25/89

Career from 1945-early 1960s: Project Hermes

for GE post WWII; Hughes Corporation and

missile projects; contacts between Hughes and

other firms, universities and RAND; systems

engineering development; Ramo-Wooldridge

formation, interaction with USAF on ICBMs;

conflict of interest problem rumors; internat’l

business and government/industry difficulties


18970

Randt, Dr.

Clark T.

Eugene

Emme

3/30/61 Origin of Office of Life Sciences, space

medicine, Mercury project, Drs Dryden and

Glennan, NASA and USAF coop and conflict

over bioastronautics and space biology

Transcript

&

Reel

22 pgs

&

1 tape

8/13/8

1761 &

XII/B/1

20002

Randt, Dr.

Clark T.

John A. Pitts 8/14/79 Personal background pre-NASA, Ketty

Committee, NASA/USAF/ scientific community

conflicts, ARC life sciences lab

Transcript

&

CS

32 pgs

&

1 tape

8/13/8

1761 &

XII/B/3

19996

2 copies

For “The Human

Factor”

Raney,

William

Adam L.

Gruen

11/6/86 Space Station: NASA Utilization over EASA

direction of international CD negotiations/

agreements, Phase B management, org and

planning, international coop and conflict,

people involved, legalities in space

CS

&

Transcript

1 tape

&

44 pgs

XII/C/3

20225

&

8/13/8

1762

Raymond,

Arthur E.

Walter

Bonney

5/10/71 NACA use of industry research during 20s and

30s; DC-1, DC-2; Jack Northrop; drag and

flush riveting; wood vs. metal propellers and

wind tunnel research at CalTech; 1946-1956

committee involvement;


Raymond

file

2 copies

Readdy, Bill Dr. Steven J.

Dick

03/23/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); role as AA for

Space Flight; previous HST servicing missions;

risks of HST missions; safety concerns ISS vs.

HST missions; was decision to cancel fifth

servicing mission justified; impact of Return to

Transcript

&

CS

24 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484


Interview

ed


Remarks

Flight (RTF) issues on decision to cancel;

decision to cancel fifth servicing mission; views

on retirement of shuttle; public reaction to

cancellation of fifth servicing mission

Reed, R. Dale Richard P.

Hallion


6689

Rees,

Eberhard

F.M.

Robert

Sherrod

2/6/71 LOR; MSC vs. MSFC; Phillips Report; Rees’

Mission to Downey

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289

Reid, H.J.E. Unnamed

interviewer


20002

& XII/B/2

20008

2 copies

Reynolds, Dr.

Orr

John Pitts 11/14/79 Aviation physiology research, primate research,

NASA organization of space bio, medicine, life

sciences, and biotech under OSS, OART, and

OMSF


1787

Reynolds, Dr.

Orr

Mae M. Link No date

given

Space Medicine Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20002

Rhode,

Richard V.

Richard P.

Hallion


6689

Rice, Don John Logsdon 11/13/75 The Nixon Administration and the space shuttle

decision


7915

Ride, Sally Unnamed

interviewer

5/83 STS 7 training, responsibilities for mission,

working with RMS


1795

Riel, Dave Adam L.

Gruen


20225

Rising, Jerry Andrew

Butrica

10/13/97 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Robbins, J. E. Harold D.

Wallace Jr.

1/11/94 CS 1 tape XII/B/5

19973

2 copies

For “Wallops

Station and the

Creation of an

American Space


Interview

ed


Remarks

Program”

Roberts,

James L.

Ed Ezell 5/1/75 Biographical information Transcript 29 pgs I/J/3

6689

2 copies

Roberts, Ray Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

32 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6689 &

XII/C/3

20225

Robinson,

Russell G.

Walter

Bonney

9/24/74 Establishment of west coast NACA (Ames

Aeronautical Lab), coordination of research

with industry in 1930’s-40’s, NACA as research

organization, aerodynamic and engine research,

integration of theoretical and research

engineers, Navy and NACA, George Lewis and

Theodore von Karman


1807

Rodden-

berry, Gene

Larry Suid 7/22/86 Television series “Star Trek” and making of

first “Star Trek” movie


1811

Rogers,

Arthur J.

“Jack” Jr.

Charles

Bolton &

Steven

Patterson

10/4/91 Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and

beginnings of Stennis Space Center (SSC);

launch vehicle testing; Saturn launch vehicles;

Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) testing;

impact of Hurricane Camille at SSC

1st CD

&

2nd CD

68 min

53 min

XII/D/5

19540

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Roman, Dr.

Nancy G.

David

DeVorkin


see Chief

Archivist

Root, Eugene Walter

Bonney

9/25/74 NACA and NACA committee on

Aerodynamics, career at Douglas Aircraft,

Guggenheim Aeronautical Lab at CIT

(GALCIT), engineering education at CIT


1829

2 copies

Rose, James Unnamed

interviewer

4/3/84 McDonnell Douglas Electrophoresis CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Rosen, Milton Tom Ray 7/7/72 Development, capabilities, costs of Saturn 5 and

NOVA launch vehicles, mobile launcher, launch

complex facilities


1835

Rosen, Milton Unnamed

interviewer

11/14/69 1959 pressure to end Saturn program,

determination to continue, determining

responsibility for program, Saturn in Apollo

Notes 2 pgs 8/14/5

1835


Interview

ed


Remarks

Program, LOR vs. EOR, upper stages

problems, F-1, NASA development of own

launch vehicles

Rosen, Milton Mr.

Grimwood

9/15/66 Saturn launch vehicle project Transcript 20 pgs 8/14/5

1835

Database lists as

notes only

Roth, Gilbert

L.

Robert

Sherrod

2/18/71 Phillips Report Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Roth, Gilbert

L.

Sylvia Fries 2/19/87 Boeing contract post Apollo 1 fire and forming

Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, executive

secretary for panel, organization and

responsibilities of panel, NASA organization

and culture, project management, safety

policies for ASTP, Space Shuttle Program, and

Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Transcript

&

CS

29 pgs

&

1 tape

8/14/6

1846

&

XII/C/4

20224

Roth, Gilbert

L.

Tom Ray 9/29/70 GE integration contract for Apollo Program,

coordination and coop: HQ and field centers,

NASA Performance Analysis and Control

Section and Configuration Management,

Boeing TIE contract after Apollo 1 (AS-204)

fire


1846

For “NASA

Engineers and the

Age of Apollo”

Rothenberg,

Joe

Rebecca

Wright

3/12/04 Work on lunar module at Grumman; Orbiting

Astronomical Observatory (OAO); Space

Shuttle modeling; project management; Solar

Maximum Mission (Solar Max); Hubble Space

Telescope (HST); role as chief of Mission

Operations Division at Goddard Space Flight

Center (GSFC); Earth Observation System

(EOS); Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

Systems (TDRSS); HST repair and repair

training; role as Director of GSFC; GSFC

reorganization; role as head of Office of Space

Flight

Transcript

&

CDs

133 pgs

&

5 CDs

I/J/6

18972

For NASA

Admistrators

Oral History

Project

Rowe,

William;

Gelder, Tom;

Reynolds,

John L. Sloop 5/29/74 Biographical information Transcript 69 pgs I/J/3

6689


Interview

ed


Remarks

Thane; Weiss,

Sol; and

Acker,

Lauren

Rubin,

Professor

Thor


&

CS

25 pgs

&

Part of 4

tapes

I/J/3

6689

& XII/C/4

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Runge, Fritz

C.

Adam L.

Gruen


20225

Sacks, Martin Robert

Sherrod

10/21/69 Grumman and NAA; “tiger teams;” Attached:

“Work Package System”

Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Saltzman,

Edwin

not supplied 12/6/76 Biographical information Notes 4 pgs I/J/3

6690

Sanders, John

C.

not supplied 3/11/86 Biographical information Notes 2 pgs I/J/3

6690

Telephone

interview

Sanders, John

C.

Virginia

Dawson


58 pgs

I/J/3

6690

For “Engines and

Innovations”

2 copies

Sanderson,

Ken

Richard P.

Hallion

3/3/77 Biographical information

Transcript

&

CS

25 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6690 &

XII/B/3

19996

for “On the

Frontier”

Sasser, James Mr. Swenson 5/17/71 Selection of Lunar landing sites for Surveyor,

Lunar Orbiter, Ranger, and Apollo; discovery

of mascons by Lunar Orbiter probes and

concerns of effects on Apollo spacecraft Lunar

orbits; importance of Apollo 8 Lunar

photography, Lunar reflectivity, exploration of

back side of moon, coordination with USAF

Aeronautical Chart and Info Center, Army

Topographic Command, US Coast and

Geodetic Survey, USGS for mapping of moon


1884

Sawyer, Paul Robert

Sherrod

11/15/72 Astronaut Contracts Transcript

&

CS

50 pgs

&

2 tapes

20511

& 13289

& 13295


Interview

ed


Remarks

Reel 2 tapes

Sawyer, Paul Robert

Sherrod

11/2/72 August 1970 astronaut/David Wolper contract;

New York Times contract; other contracts;

Sherrod and Apollo 11 book

Notes

&

Transcript

3 pgs

&

50 pgs

III/B/3

13289

Telephone

interview

Scheer, Julian Robert

Sherrod

6/30/69 Astronauts’ writing contracts - LIFE and

others

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

4/26/73 Glenn’s Newsweek article; Armstrong and

Norman Mailer; motivating astronauts to

write; Aldrin’s book

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289

Telephone

interview


Sherrod

9/11/69 James Webb; Apollo 1 (AS-204 fire); Frank

Borman; Neil Armstrong; Phillips Report

Notes 6 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

5/1/72 NY Times vs. Webb; Neil Armstrong as first on

moon; planned vs. spontaneous astronaut

statements; PR activity summaries; Shorty

Powers matter; Shepard on Apollo 13; Apollo

14 splashdown PR personalities; Apollo 8 and

11 excitement

Notes 4 pgs III/B/3

13289

Telephone

interview


Sherrod

6/29/70 Webb and Seamans, other personalities Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

6/4/69 Air to ground “private line;” PR of Apollo 1

(AS-204) fire

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

2/18/69 Omissions from statements; firing of Shorty

Powers

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

12/14/71 Post-NASA; Scheer’s info “ins” while at NASA Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

2/19/71 NASA management personalities Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13289


Sherrod

2/22/71 Response to request for resignation Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Scherer, Lee

R.

Robert

Sherrod

10/16/70 Science in Apollo program, esp. Apollo 11;

lunar landing site selection; scientists vs.

engineers; lunar findings

Notes 8 pgs III/B/3

13289

Scherer, Lee,

with

Benjamin

Members of

NAPA

9/12/68 Lunar orbiter and surveyor projects, lunar

exploration, contract selection and

management, program management,


1580

Listed as oral

history – may not

be correct.


Interview

ed


Remarks

Milwitzky

and Oran

Nicks

experiment selection, NASA/JPL/ Hughes

Aircraft Company

Schirra,

Wally

William

Barry

Furlong

No date

given


13284

Copyrighted by

World Book

Encyclopedia

Science Service

Schlesinger

Jr., Arthur

Robert

Sherrod

6/2/72 JFK’s joint lunar landing proposal Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289

Schmidt,

Howard

Unnamed

interviewer

9/12/70 Nuclear Rocket Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20008

Schmitt, Dr.

Harrison H.

Robert

Sherrod

4/9/74 Only scientist astronaut to set foot on the moon Transcript

&

CS

Reel

13 pgs

&

1 tape

30 min

13289 &

20511 &

13295

Schmitt, Dr.

Harrison H.

Robert

Sherrod

1/19/70 Naming of lunar craters Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289

Telephone

interview

Schneider,

Bill

Tom Ray 11/2/70 Apollo mission director and decision to send

Apollo 8 into lunar orbit


1928

Schneider,

William,

Charles

Mathews,

William

Taylor, and

Philip

Culbertson

David

Compton and

Charles

Benson

7/15/75 Skylab, Apollo Applications Program, MOL,

role of JSC and MSFC in Skylab project,

Apollo Extension System, program

management


1928

Schneiderman

Dan

Allan Needell 7/17/82 Experiences with radar during WWII, work for

JPL, Corporal missile, Pioneer 3 & 4, Ranger

spacecraft, Mariner spacecraft, spacecraft

sterilization, Mariner 1 and 2, Mariner 5


18973

Schriever,

Gen. Bernard

A.

John Logsdon 1/8/67 Lunar Landing Decision Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20008


Interview

ed


Remarks

Schriever,

Gen. Bernard

A.

Lyn Officer &

James

Hasdorff


see Chief

Archivist

Schriever,

Gen. Bernard

A.

Edgar

Puryear, Jr.

6/15/77 &

6/29/77

USAF Oral History Program Interview Transcript Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Schriever,

Gen. Bernard

A.

Martin

Collins

5/18/90 &

9/5/90

Pre-war military service and studies in

engineering; Project RAND; Scientific Liaison

Office (SLO) (1945-9); post-war scientific

advisory boards and relationship of boards and

RAND to SLO; USAF long-range planning;

strategic bombing and nuclear weapons

Transcript 38 pgs I/I/1

18983

Schriever,

Gen. Bernard

A.

Carol L.

Butler

4/15/99 US ICBM Program; Western Development

Division; USSR ICBM Program; Sputnik;

Ramo-Wooldridge Corp; Atlas ICBM; Titan

ICBM; US Navy Polaris Program; formation of

NASA; Advanced Research Projects Agency

(ARPA); Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL);

space and national security

Transcript

&

VHS

&

CS

35 pgs

&

90 min

&

89 min

I/I/1

18984

2 VHS copies, 2

copies of CS

Schueller,

Carl

Virginia

Dawson


8 pgs

I/J/3

6690

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Schurmeier,

Harris M.

“Bud”

R. Cargill

Hall & James

H. Wilson

9/25/70 Ranger Project; work at Jet Propulsion

Laboratory (JPL) Systems Division; Ranger

spacecraft; Ranger 6 failure; program

management


18975

Schweickart,

Russell L.

Curtis

Ingram

8/1/74 Religious Experience of Space Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20008

Schweickart,

Russell L.

Charles

Benson


see Chief

Archivist

Schwinghamer,

Bob

Mr. Jones Tape

received

6/12/73

Rescue of Skylab spacecraft, proposal to spray

paint micro-meteoroid shield in space, design

and use of the parasail


1954

& 7/11/4

7591

Scott, Col.

Dave

William

Barry


13284

Copyrighted by

World Book


Interview

ed


Remarks

Furlong Encyclopedia

Science Service

Scott, Col.

Dave

James Burke 5/19/79 Lunar landing and rendezvous sequences

during Apollo missions, financial gains of

astronauts


1959

Copyrighted by

BBC

Scott, Dave,

James Lovell,

Charles Duke,

Harrison

Schmitt,

Eugene

Cernan, and

James

McDivitt

James Burke 5/19/79 Astronaut selection engineering, test and flight

procedures, mission planning, design of science

experiments, public support of space program,

biological functions in space, CAPCOM, science

and engineering in Apollo program,

readjustment after flight and family issues,

media relations, 1970 funding cutbacks, NASA

reaction to Apollo 15 controversy


1959

Copyrighted by

BBC

Scrivener,

Nina

Robert

Sherrod

11/30/70 Low replacing Shea; Webb meeting with

Senator Mondale re: Phillips Report

Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Seaberg,

Colonel John


&

CS

45 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6690

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Seaberg,

Colonel John


&

CS

101 pgs

&

3 parts on

2 tapes

I/J/3

6690

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

John Logsdon

and Eugene

Emme

7/11/69 Debate over LOR and EOR, or direct decent

mission modes for Lunar landing (Apollo)

missions


3644

2 copies, both

with handwritten

corrections

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

12/18/68 NASA organization post-JFK election Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Paul Van

Riper,

Cornell Univ.

12/6/66 Decision for “all-up” concept for development

and testing of Saturn launch vehicles

Transcript 3 pgs

4 pgs

6/5/6

3638

& 4/2/3

16203

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Walter

Sohier,

Addison

3/27/64 Interactions with Pres. Kennedy during trips to

Los Alamos/Las Vegas and Houston/Rice Univ.

speech; lunar landing decision; transition from

Transcript

&

Reel

46 pgs

&

2 tapes

6/5/6

3633 &

XII/B/1

4 copies, 2 clean

and bound, one

with handwritten


Interview

ed


Remarks

Rothrock,

and Eugene

Emme

Eisenhower to Kennedy administrations;

decision to ban nuclear test in upper

atmosphere; Kennedy meeting with James

Webb and Brainerd Holmes on space policy

20003 corrections

Copyrighted by

JFK Library

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Paul van

Riper

7/20/67 Gemini 7/6 mission decision; M1 engine

cancellation, incentive contracts, establishment

of Secretariat, and top-level decision-making in

NASA

Notes taken

by William

Putnam

4 pgs 6/5/6

3641

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Don Neff 2/12/69 Pre-Apollo Lunar flight studies; Apollo

program decision; decision for LOR mission

mode


3642

Copyrighted by

Time, Inc.

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Joe Lubin &

Gen. Donald

Flickinger


20003

Never used – poor

tape quality

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

6/24/69 Astronaut selection, contracts and finances;

Apollo 1 fire, review board, “Phillips’ Report”

and Joe Shea; NAA reorganization and Boeing

TIE contract, Deputy Director appointment,

DoD attempts to take over Gemini Program.

Notes 9 pgs III/B/3

13289

&

PDF

50713

Located in

Sherrod and

Seamans files

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

James

Grimwood

9/1/65 Project Mercury Notes 4 pgs 6/5/6

3637

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

John Logsdon 9/2/70 Post-Apollo planning, Apollo Applications

Program; 2nd Space Task Group

Transcript

&

Reel

25 pgs

&

3 ¾ hours

6/5/6

3645

& XII/B/1

20003

2 copies in file, 1

with handwritten

corrections

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Eugene

Emme and

William

Putnam

5/8/68,

5/20/68,

and

6/3/68

Project Mercury; organization of life sciences

program; meetings with Pres. Eisenhower on

communication satellites and lunar landing

costs; NASA reaction to Wiesner Committee

report; appointment of James Webb as NASA

Administrator; PSAC role in LOR mode

decision; establishment of ComSat; Syncom

satellites; meetings and studies leading to Lunar

landing mission decision; 1963 reorganization;

organization of Apollo Program management;

controversy: Brainerd Homes and James

Transcript

&

Reel

162 pgs &

1 tape

6/5/6

3622 &

XII/B/1

20003


Interview

ed


Remarks

Webb; establishment of KSC; NASA/

Congressional/ public relations; Houston site

selection for MSC; advanced planning; reorg

upon Seamans’ Dep. Admin appointment;

Apollo 1 fire; LLVPG; alt. Launch site search;

Apollo contracts; Air Force participation in

Gemini program; Homer Newell Ass. Admin

appointment; Surveyor, Ranger, and Lunar

Orbiter projects; management relations with

JPL; post-Apollo projects using existing

hardware; FY1968 appropriations and

authorization.; satellite apps and Tiros

program; international program; electronics

and aeronautical research under NACA and

NASA

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Eugene

Emme, James

Grimwood,

and Wm.

Putnam

5/26/66 Gemini program start-up, management,

decision on Titan 2 launch vehicle, participation

of DoD


3639

4 copies – 2 with

handwritten

corrections

Seamans,

Robert C. Jr.

John Logsdon

&

Eugene

Emme

12/5/67 Lunar landing decision by the Kennedy

Administration

Transcript

&

Reel

40 pgs

&

4 tapes

(2 7”,

1 5” 1 3”)

6/5/6

3640

& XII/B/1

20003

& XII/B/2

20008

& XII/B/2

20009

Last tape -

excerpts

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Lt. Col. Lyn

R. Officer

and Mr.

Hugh N.

Ahmann

9/73,

11/73,

and 3/74

Tenure as Secretary of Air Force; selection of

his staff; cooperation with other DoD offices;

Vietnam War; weapons procurement;

development of C5 “Galaxy,” F15 “Eagle,”

FSTOL aircraft; Congressional and White

House relations


13882

Copyrighted by

Air Force

Historical Studies

Office

Permission

granted for use

Seamans, Dr.

Robert C. Jr.

Walter

Bonney

2/23/73 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

(NACA); NACA role in missile development;


3646

2 copies, and 4

copies


Interview

ed


Remarks

transition from NACA to NASA; Robert

Gilruth; Seamans’ role as Deputy

Administrator; early NASA organization;

James Webb; Jerome Hunsaker

&

I/I/4

3646

Seiff, Alvin Sylvia Fries 8/7/85 Ames Research Center (ARC) CS 2 tapes XII/C/4

20223 -

20224

Part 1 on same

tape as Alan D.

Levin interview.

Part 2 on same

tape as Robert

Rogallo, part 1

Sens, William

and John

Wells

John L. Sloop 4/10/74 Hydrogen as a rocket fuel Transcript

&

CS

77 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6690

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

SETI and

Astrobiology

History

Interviews

Steven Dick 1988-

2001

Interviews with Peter Backus;

John Billingham; David Black; David Brocker;

Melvin Calvin; Kathleen Connell; Gary

Coulter; Frank Drake; Sam Gulkis; Lynn

Harper; Nikolai Kardashev; Philip J. Klass;

Harold Klein; Michael Klein; Keith

Kvenvolden; Joshua Lederberg; George Marx;

Gene McDonald; David McKay; Michael

Meyer; Bernard Oliver; Ed Olsen; Michael

Papagiannis; Thomas Pierson; Carl Sagan;

Charles Seeger; Guy Schmidt; and Jill Tarter

Transcripts

&

CS

Various

lengths

&

40 tapes

APF

19922-

19925

&

XII/C/6

19972

Shapiro, Irwin

I.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Shapiro, Irwin

I.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Shapiro,

Irwin I.

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Shapley,

Willis H.

9/1/60

9/2/60

Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20003


Interview

ed


Remarks

Shapley,

Willis H.

John Logsdon 12/14/67 Bureau of the Budget job, budget negotiations

and funding for manned space flight programs,

decision to accelerate space program and

manned lunar landing

Transcript

&

Reel

35 pgs &

2 tapes

8/1/5

1992 &

XII/B/1

20003

& XII/B/2

20008

2 copies

Shapley,

Willis H.

John Logsdon 7/30/70 Post-Apollo planning, establishment of 1969

Space Task Group, budget reductions, ideas for

space station and manned Mars landing

Transcript

&

Reel

27 pgs

&

455 feet

8/1/5

1993 &

XII/B/1

20003

2 copies – one

with handwritten

corrections

Shapley,

Willis H.

John Mauer 10/26/84 STS Program Transcript 32 pgs 8/1/5

1991

Shapley,

Willis H.

Sylvia Fries

and Lee

Saegesser

11/10/87 Policy planning in changing political

environment, comparison with UK, Japan,

Germany, France, etc. national R&D, how

policy decisions are made, NASA comparison to

other fed. Bureaucracies, changes in DC politics

since 1942

Transcript

&

CS

26 pgs

&

1 tape

8/1/5

1995

&

XII/C/4

20224

2 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Shapley,

Willis H.

Robert

Sherrod

8/17/71 After Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Shapley,

Willis H.

Robert

Sherrod

7/16/70 Webb and Kennedy Administration; Webb and

Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire hearing preparation

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13289

Shapley,

Willis H.

Robert

Sherrod

1/28/70 “$20 Billion question” Notes 4 pgs III/B/3

13289

Shapley,

Willis H.

Robert

Sherrod

1/17/69 View of Apollo 8 (C-prime) decision Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13289

Shapley,

Willis H.

Robert

Sherrod

4/18/72 Silly names for Command Modules Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13289

Sharp, Dr.

Edward R.

J.J. Haggerty,

American

Aviation

Magazine

10/12/51 Draft reducing scientific help at LFPL, military

R&D expanded with o NACA funds increased


2000

Shaw, Lutha

(Tom)

Virginia

Dawson &

Joe

Nieberding

11/10/99 Centaur project Transcript 20 pgs I/J & 8/1/6

2011

Part of “Centaur

Interviews” folder


Interview

ed


Remarks

Dr. Shawhan Unnamed

Interviewer

6/7/84 International Solar and Terrestrial Physics

Program

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Shea, Dr.

Joseph

Don Neff 2/12/69 Early career at NASA, EOR, Saturn launch

vehicles, “all up” decision, reliability statistics


2011

Copyrighted by

Time, Inc.

Shea, Dr.

Joseph F.

Robert

Sherrod

5/6 and

16/71

Career leading up to Houston assignment;

biographical Information; numerous other

subjects

Notes

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

5 pgs

58 pgs

&

5 tapes

4 ¾ hrs

13289

&

20511 &

13295

Transcript: 2

copies. 1 is 42 pgs

with notes

1st tape and ½=

5/6, then 5/16.

Shea, Dr.

Joseph F.

Robert

Sherrod

3/10/73

Apollo: Apollo 1 (AS-204); WWII Transcript

& CS

& Reel

23 pgs &

1 tape, 45

min

13289 &

20511 &

20512

Shea, Dr.

Joseph F.

Eugene

Emme

5/6/70 Early career at NASA, Saturn 5 launch vehicle,

Nicholas Golovin, EOR, LOR, Apollo program

management

Transcript

&

Reel

27 pgs

&

2 tapes

8/1/6

2011

& XII/B/2

20008

2 copies of tape 1

Sheldon,

Charles

James Dewar 7/8/71 Reel 1 tape XII/B/2

20008

Shepard,

Admiral Alan

B. Jr.

James Burke 5/17/79 Astronaut selection and training for Project

Mercury, selection for 1st flight, Lunar landing

decision, inter-astronaut relations and relations

with media, astronauts influence on training,

missions, hardware development and testing,

Apollo 14, science and engineering on Apollo

flights, impact of space flight on astronauts,

technical benefits of space program


2035

Copyrighted by

the BBC

Shepard,

Admiral Alan

B. Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

12/14/72 Astronauts; future of the space program Transcript

&

CS

Reel

35 pgs &

1 tape

1 tape

13290 &

20511 &

20512

Shepard,

Admiral Alan

B. Jr.

Walter Sohier 6/12/64 Meetings with President JFK, efforts for

additional Mercury flight, Kennedy’s views on

astronaut contract with Life Magazine, coop.

with Soviet Union, importance of space

program to USA, meeting with Vice President

Transcript

&

Reel

&

CD

21 pgs

&

2 reels

2 copies

1 CD

8/1/8

2039

& XII/B/1

20003

& XII/D/4

Copyrighted by

JFK Library


Interview

ed


Remarks

LBJ 20188

Shepard,

James T.

Robert

Sherrod

4/12/71 James Webb; MSFC reorganization Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Shepherd, Bill Jeff Bingham 4/28/99 Space station redesign in 1993, political

environment around space station; shuttle

program; Space Station Program at JSC;

NASA/Congress relations; relations with

Russians as an ISS partner; White

House/NASA relations


18974

Sherrod,

Robert

Jim Parisi

(VOA)

1/12/73 Sherrod’s unpublished manuscript on history

of Apollo

Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20004

Shoemaker,

Eugene

James Burke,

BBC-TV

5/14/79 Falmouth, handling lunar samples, Apollo

involvement of different scientific specialists,

prioritizing sites, lunar information applied to

earth


2050

Sidey, Hugh Larry Suid 10/16/86 President Kennedy’s role in space program and

decision to go to moon


2064

Sidey, Hugh Robert

Sherrod

10/08/70 Notes 1 pg III/B/2

13290

Siegel, Gerald Jay Holmes 6/25/68 President Johnson’s involvement with passage

of National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

Notes 5 pgs 8/1/9

2066

Siegel, Gerald Eugene

Emme

6/8/74 Senate Special Committee on Space and

Aeronautics (1957-1958)

Transcript

&

CS

60 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/J/2

13459 &

XII/B/2

19995

Siepert,

Albert F.

Eugene

Emme

5/15/74 Transcript

&

Reel

&

CS

114 pgs

&

1 tape

&

2 tapes

I/J/2

13487 &

XII/B/1

20004 &

XII/B/2

19995

Sikorsky, Igor Walter

Bonney

10/26/71 Design of flying boats, NACA designed airfoils

for helicopter blades, NACA contribution to

aeronautics


2058

2 copies in file,

slightly different

handwritten

corrections


Interview

ed


Remarks

Silverstein,

Dr. Abe

Walter

Bonney

10/21/72

and

9/20/73

Legislation allowing NASA to use any govt

employees interested in space program; NASA

organization; wind tunnel research on drag and

laminar flow wings

Transcript

and notes

15 pgs 8/1/9

2069

& 8/2/1

2070

Recorder

malfunctioned.

Silverstein,

Dr. Abe

John Sloop 5/29/74 NACA HQ and field centers relationships;

organization of new research ideas,

subcommittee structure, organization and

success of NACA

Transcript

&

CS

152 pgs

&

3 tapes

8/2/1

2070

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Silverstein,

Abe

Eugene

Emme

5/14/74 Transcript

&

CS

100 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/J/2

13488

& XII/C/4

19995

For “Early

History of NASA”

Silverstein,

Dr. Abe

J.J. Haggerty 10/12/51 Research in turboprop, ducted fan, turbine,

and ramjet engines; thermodynamics and

materials, de-icing of jet planes, ramjet rockets,

helicopter propulsion systems


2070

Silverstein,

Dr. Abe

Virginia

Dawson

10/5/84 Supersonic Panel, early NACA and growth

during WWII, contractor companies, cooling

problems with B-29, ramjet and nuclear

Transcript

27 pgs

8/2/1

2070

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Silverstein,

Dr. Abe

Unnamed

interviewer

4/26/62 NACA HQ and field offices; origins of new

research work; sub-committee structure;

NACA as independent of outside groups

(military, WAS, IAS); Universities and NACA;

NACA publicity


2068

Simon,

Harlan

Virginia

Dawson


27 pgs

I/J/3

6690

For “Engines and

Innovations”

Simons,

Howard

Robert

Sherrod

9/28/72 Journalistic coverage of space program through

late 1965, biographical information

Notes 2 pgs

1 pg

III/B/3

13290

Simpson, E.

C.


&

CS

66 pgs

&

Part of 4

tapes

I/J/3

6690

& XII/C/4

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Simpson,

Richard A.

Andrew

Butrica

5/10/94 Transcript

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

“Single Stage Andrew 1997- Interviews with Arnold Aldrich, R. Gene CS 55 tapes I/I/2


Interview

ed


Remarks

to Orbit”

Interviews

Cassettes,

A - I

Butrica 2000 Austin, Robert Baumgartner, Ivan Bekey,

James Berry, Raymond Chase, William

Claybaugh, Charles "Pete" Conrad, Daniel

Dumbacher, Charles Eldred, Michael Epstein,

Del Freeman, William Gaubatz, Michael

Griffin, Michael Hampson, James Hengle,

Andrew Hepler, Steven Hoeser, Maxwell

Hunter, and Kenneth Iliff. Used for X-33

history

18997

“Single Stage

to Orbit”

Interviews

Cassettes,

K - W

Andrew

Butrica

1997-

2000

Interviews with Paul Klevatt, Tim Kyger, John

Levine, John Mansfield, T.K. "Ken" Mattingly,

James Muncy, Gary Payton, Gregory Reck,

Jerry Rising, Ronald Schena, Curt Shoffner,

Jess Sponable, Douglas Stanley, Philip Sumrall,

Theodore Talay, David Urie, and Alan Wilhite.

Used for X-33 history.

CS 62 tapes I/I/2

18998

“Single Stage

to Orbit”

Interviews

Transcripts

Andrew

Butrica

Interviews with R. Gene Austin, Robert

Baumgartner, Charles Eldred, Michael Epstein,

Michael Griffin, Timothy Kyger, John

Mansfield, and Ronald Schena re nuclear

propulsion; ion propulsion; National Launch

System (NLS); X-33; single-stage-to-orbit;

Lockheed Martin; Reusable Launch Vehicle

(RLV); TransAtmospheric Vehicle (TAV);

spacecraft design; DC-XA; Space Shuttle

advanced concepts; National AeroSpace Plane

(NASP); Advanced Launch System (ALS);

VentureStar; Space Shuttle solid rocket

boosters (SRBs); Allied Signal; Strategic

Defense Initiative (SDI); X-planes; Space

Exploration Initiative (SEI); space lobbying; X-

34; Challenger (STS 51-L) accident; Strategic

Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO);

relationship between NASA and contractors;

Future X; program management; “Brilliant

Pebbles”; military spaceplane; aerodynamics;

HL-20; X-2000; lifting bodies; Orbital Sciences

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/I/1

18996


Interview

ed


Remarks

Corporation; and Space Shuttle design

Sisson, James Adam Gruen 4/20/88 Career at NASA; management organization;

Space Station Program Office Levels 1 through

3 meetings and organization, staffing and

budget problems, PSC

Transcript

&

CS

31 pgs &

1 tape

8/2/1

2092 &

XII/C/3

20225

Sjoberg,

Sigurd A.

Robert

Sherrod

7/28/72 Biographical information; NASA working

within tightened budget

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

22 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

13290 &

20511 &

20512

Skarin,

Homer

9/1/60

9/2/60

Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20003

Slayton,

Donald K.

Ed Ezell 3/2/76 Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) training and

mission


8990

& PDF

50716

2 copies in file, 1

with handwritten

notes

Slayton,

Donald K.

Robert

Sherrod

8/2/71 Entering Apollo 1 (AS-204) on launch pad prior

to fire; delay in announcing deaths of Grissom,

White and Chaffee

Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

& PDF

50714

Slayton,

Donald K.

Robert

Sherrod

7/26/72 Slayton's grounding during Mercury program;

Astronaut Office; Apollo 15 commemorative

covers; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; Apollo 7 crew;

selection of Apollo 11 crew; astronaut public

appearances; and selection of astronauts for

flight crews

Notes,

transcript

&

CS

Reel

18 pgs

&

1 tape

1 hour

13290

&

20511

&

20512

Sloop, John

L.

Unnamed

interviewer

11/14/69 Personnel involved with early Saturn

development, Silverstein and von Braun

antagonism

Notes 2 pgs 8/2/2

2107

Smalley,

Richard E.

Robbie Davis-

Floyd and

Kenneth J.

Cox

1/22/00 Buckminsterfullerene; Bucky Balls;

nanotechnology; quantum electron dynamics;

carbon nanotubes; winning the Nobel Prize for

chemistry


18976

Smith, C.

Branson


&

CS

37 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6690

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”


Interview

ed


Remarks

Smith, Eric Dr. Steven J.

Dick

1/23/04 Hubble Space Telescope (HST); role as HST

Program Scientist; scientific community desire

for fifth servicing mission; how long Hubble

would last without servicing mission; O’Keefe’s

decision to cancel fifth servicing mission;

reactions from the scientific community to

cancellation; James Webb Space Telescope

(JWST)

Transcript

&

CS

27 pgs

&

1 tape

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484

Smith,

George

Robert

Sherrod

9/14/70 Crew Compartment Project Engineer at CARR

for Apollo 1 (AS-204)

Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Smith, Gerald Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Smith, Gerald Unnamed

Interviewer

10/86 MSFC; SRB Redesign CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Smith, John Unnamed

Interviewer

7/21/? Mission Adaptive Wing CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Smith,

Richard G.

Mr. Jones 6/12/73 Skylab 1 damage during launch Transcript 6 pgs 8/2/4

2130

& 7/11/4

7591

Smull, Dr.

Thomas K.

Arthur

Levine

8/60 Success of NACA; role of NACA Industry

Consulting Committee; NACA’s role, response.

As research and supervising agency; coord.

with scientific community; NACA committee

and subcommittee structure, NACA coop with

military

Notes 22 pgs 8/2/4

2141

4 copies with

handwritten notes

Snyder, Sam Tom Ray 7/5/72 Position in OLVP; resp. of launch director;

coord and relationships bet. NASA HQ, field

centers, and USAF; OLVP and OSFP and

launch operations division relations;

contract/labor relations; KSC Corp of

Engineers work; launch pad oper., proposed

launch sites; Navy’s effort for large launch

vehicles at sea


2146

Soffen, Dr.

Gerald A.

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Life Sciences, 25th Anniversary CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037


Interview

ed


Remarks

Soffen, Dr.

Gerald A.

Unnamed

Interviewer

9/5/85

or

9/5/86

Global Change CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Soffen, Dr.

Gerald A.

John A. Pitts 2/28/80 Work at JPL on biosatellite project; Project

Scientist for Viking; results of Viking Project;

NASA life sciences prog. In 1960’s; life sciences

research: bio, exobiology, exposure of living

organisms to space, and biogenesis

Transcript

&

CS

40 pgs

&

1 tape

8/2/4

2150

&

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Sokolik,

James G.

Sandra

Johnson

6/26/08 high altitude life support; pressure suits; ER-2

aircraft; SR-71 aircraft; U-2 aircraft

Transcript

& CD

33 pgs

& 1 CD

I/I/4

19863

Soper, Josie

A.

Rebecca

Wright

04/19/06 NASA Headquarters in the early 1960s; work

in the Office of Public Affairs; dealing with the

media; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire; Apollo 13

accident; working Apollo launches; work in the

Office of Legislative Affairs; Congressional

relations; Gerry Griffin; Joe Allen; Robert

Allnutt; work in the Office of the

Administrator; James Beggs; William Graham;

Challenger (STS-51L) accident; Richard Truly;

Dan Goldin; Michael Griffin; moving the Office

of the Administrator; impact on NASA of

September 11, 2001 terrorist attack; Sean

O’Keefe; Columbia (STS-107) accident; Shana

Dale; and Equal Employment Opportunity

(EEO) at NASA

Transcript

&

CD

77 pgs

&

3 CDs

I/I/4

19822

Sorensen,

Theodore C.

Carl Kaysen 3/26/64 Priority and opinion of space program under

JFK Administration and space race with USSR


2163 &

IV/A/6

12487

Copyrighted by

JFK Library

Sorensen,

Theodore C.

John Logsdon 10/5/67 Takeover of Kennedy Administration from

Eisenhower; spending of defense and space

program; FYs 1961-3 NASA budgets; debate

over need for large manned space flight

program; setting space policy; lunar landing

decision

Transcript

& Reel

34 pgs 8/2/5

2162

&

XII/B/1

20000


Interview

ed


Remarks

Soule, Hartley Walter

Bonney

3/28/73 NACA career; aeronautical research;

transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight;

X1, D558, and X15 aircraft


2165

Space Shuttle

Decision Oral

History

Interviews

Barrett -

Myers

various

interviewers

1970-

1991

Interviews with William Barrett, Philip

Culbertson, Leroy Day, Charles Donlan,

Russell Drew, John Duff, John Ehrlichman,

David Elliot, James Fletcher, R.R. Foll, Robert

Frosch, Arnold Frutkin, James Fulton, David

Greenshields, Joseph Gunderson, George

Hardy, John Hodge, W.P. Horton, James

Jackson, James Kingsbury, William Lilly,

Douglas Lord, George Low, Joseph Mahon,

Hans Mark, Robert Marshall, Charles

Mathews, George McDonough, Joseph

McGolrick, and Dale Myers re Space Shuttle

program; external tank, thermal protection

system (TPS); costs; payloads; budget; Phase A

and B studies; configurations; NASA and

Department of Defense (DoD) relationship;

Shuttle design; Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) involvement in Shuttle design;

North American Rockwell; Space Task Group

(STG); Shuttle development; Shuttle

management; relationship between NASA and

Shuttle contractors; Shuttle Approach and

Landing Tests (ALT); Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

(SCA); Remote Manipulator System (RMS);

post-Apollo planning; early reusable spacecraft

concepts; George Mueller; Integral Logistic

and Reentry Vehicle (ILRV); Space Shuttle

Task Group; Flax Committee; Shuttle decision;

relationship between NASA and the Nixon

administration; European involvement in

Shuttle; Caspar Weinberger; Donald Rice;

Thomas O. Paine; relationship between NASA

and Congress; solid rocket boosters (SRB);

Thiokol Corporation; Space Shuttle main

Transcripts various

lengths

I/I/4

19886


Interview

ed


Remarks

engine (SSME); Mathematica study; William

Niskanen; NASA budget; influence of space

station planning on Shuttle; Robert Mayo; and

redesign of Shuttle following Challenger (STS-

51L) accident

Space Shuttle

Decision Oral

History

Interviews

Naugle -

Weinberger

various

interviewers

Interviews with John Naugle, Homer Newell,

James Odom, Thomas O. Paine, William

Petynia, Henry Pohl, Wilhelm Raithel,

Eberhard Rees, Donald Rice, Daniel Schnyer,

Robert Seamans, Willis Shapley, Milton

Silveira, William Simon, Space Shuttle

Technical Conference, Olin Teague, Joseph

Thibodaux, Robert Thompson, Jerry Thomson,

Richard Truly, Wernher von Braun, James

Webb and Caspar Weinberger re post-Apollo

planning; Space Shuttle program; Shuttle

payloads; Shuttle design; George Low; George

Mueller; Inertial Upper Stage (IUS); NASA and

Department of Defense (DoD) relationship;

expendable launch vehicles (ELV); Dale Myers;

Office of Management and Budget (OMB);

Space Task Group (STG); Shuttle Phase A and

B studies; external tank (ET); relationship

between NASA and Shuttle contractors; Shuttle

development; solid rocket boosters (SRB);

Space Shuttle main engine (SSME); Michoud

Assembly Facility (MAF); Martin Marietta;

Space Shuttle Task Group; Shuttle thermal

protection system (TPS); Robert Mayo;

relationship between NASA and the Nixon

administration; NASA budget; Paine’s role as

NASA administrator; European involvement in

Shuttle; history of liquid propulsion

development; V-2; history of reusable

spacecraft; North American Rockwell; Integral

Logistic and Reentry Vehicle (ILRV); Townes

Committee; Congressional relations; Dynasoar;

Transcripts various

lengths

I/I/4

19887


Interview

ed


Remarks

fuel cells; Shuttle program management; Max

Faget; Shuttle costs; flying the Shuttle

Space Shuttle

Decision Oral

History

Interviews

Tapes

various

interviewers:

first set

probably by

Thomas

Heppen-

heimer

Second set by

Stephen

Garber

First set:

most

undated,

a few

from

mid-

1990s.

Second

set by

Garber

from

2000-

2001

First set: Interviews with Robert Biggs, Paul

Castenholz, Konrad Dannenberg, Max Faget,

John Fox, David Geiger, Charles Godfrey,

Daniel Hausman, Mack Herring, George

Hopson, Fred Jue, Ed Larson, Hans Mark, Dale

Myers, Conrad Nagel, John Plowden, John

Price, Jerry Rising, Joseph Stangeland, Ernst

Stuhlinger, James Thompson, and Willy

Wilhelm.

Second set by Stephen Garber:

Interviews with George Mueller, Hans Mark,

Milton Silveira, Charles Donlan, LeRoy Day,

Aaron Cohen, Michael Yarmovych, John

McLucas, Robert F. Thompson, and Robert

Naka, re Space Shuttle design and development.

CS First set:

16 tapes;

Second

set:

12 tapes

XII/C/5

12693

Space Shuttle

Decision Oral

History

Interviews

Transcripts

Stephen

Garber

2000-

2001

Interviews with George Mueller, Hans Mark,

Milton Silveira, Charles Donlan, LeRoy Day,

Aaron Cohen, Michael Yarmovych, John

McLucas, Robert F. Thompson, and Robert

Naka re Space Shuttle design and development.

Transcripts Various

lengths

33471-

33479,

54208

Electronic files

Space Station

History

Project

(SSHP)

Interviews

Cassettes

Adam Gruen 1987-

1988

Interviews with David Black, Alan Chambers,

Jerry Craig, Robert Frietag, C.M. Giesler,

Harry Goett, William Goette, J.W. Johnson,

Erwin Kempke, Henry Lum, Mark Nolan,

Donald Nored, Douglas O’Handley, Ted Sassen,

Joe Sharpe, and Lee Tilton III re Space Station

Freedom (SSF)

CS 17 tapes XII/C/6

20191

Space Station

History

Project

(SSHP)

Interviews

Transcripts

Adam Gruen 1987-

1988

Interviews with William Snoddy, Maxwell Nein,

Carmine DeSanctis, Robert Bechtel, William

Huber, Charles Chappell, John Massey, Georg

von Tiesenhausen, John Hilchey, William

Roberts, James McMillion, Robert Doherty,

George Hopson, and James Odom re space

station design; scientific experiments on the

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/6

18977


Interview

ed


Remarks

space station; scientists and their views of a

manned space station; program management;

early space station concepts; impact of the

choice of lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) on

existence of a space station; space medicine and

long-duration space flight; environmental

systems; Skylab; Odom’s role as Associate

Administrator for Space Station; solar-

terrestrial physics; and space station payloads

Space Stories

Interviews

Dr. Robbie

Davis-Floyd

& Dr.

Kenneth J.

Cox

9/9/96 &

9/10/96

Interviews with Guy Thibodaux, Maxime

Faget, & Paul Purser. NACA Pilotless Aircraft

Research Division (PARD); formation of

NASA; Space Task Group (STG); Johnson

Space Center (JSC); Mercury spacecraft

design; space medicine; Little Joe; lunar orbit

rendezvous (LOR); safety


18985

Copyright 1998

Spencer,

Nelson

Eugene

Emme

9/27/73 V2 rocket testing in US after WWII; Stever

Committee; creation and organization of NASA

Transcript

39 pgs

8/2/5

2169

For “Early

History of NASA”

Spinak, A. D. Harold

Wallace

12/21/93 CS 2 tapes XII/B/5

19973

2 copies

For “Wallops

Station and the

Creation of an

American Space

Program”

Splawn,

James

A.R. Jones Tape

received

6/12/73

Skylab anomaly upon launch; research on

special shields or parasails to decrease

temperature inside Skylab, rescue mission of

Skylab 2 crew


2174

& 7/11/4

7591

Stack, John Richard

Hallion

5/19/71 Compressibility and transonic research; NACA

subcommittee on High-Speed Aerodynamics;

X1 and X3 projects


2181

Stack, John 1/31/68 Reel XII/B/1

20001

Stadd,

Courtney A.

Rebecca

Wright

1/7/03 Space commercialization, Space Shuttle,

Challenger, Commercial Space Launch Act of

1984

Transcript

&

CDs

30 pages

&

2 CDs

I/J/6

18980

Indexed


Interview

ed


Remarks

Stadd,

Courtney A.

Rebecca

Wright

1/8/03 National Space Council, space

commercialization, Industrial Space Facility,

Office of Commercial Space Transportation

Transcript

& CD

20 pages I/J/6

18979

Indexed

Stadd,

Courtney A.

Rebecca

Wright

11/19/03 Columbia (STS-107) accident, investigation,

and memorials; NASA Transition Team, Dan

Goldin, selection of Sean O’Keefe as NASA

Administrator, September 11, Freedom to

Manage, commercialization

Transcript

&

CDs

72 pages

&

3 CDs

I/J/6

18978

Indexed

Stafford, Maj.

Gen. Thomas

P.

William

Barry

Furlong

No date

given


13284

Copyrighted by

World Book

Encyclopedia

Science Service

Stafford, Maj.

Gen. Thomas

P.

Ed Ezell 4/6/76 Soyuz 11 Cosmonauts funeral; Russian

language training; Apollo Soyuz Test Project

(ASTP) mission training, docking mechanism,

television system; toxic leak in Apollo

spacecraft during re-entry; USA-USSR benefits

of ASTP


2192

&

PDF

50717

Stanley, Doug Andrew

Butrica

2/25/99 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Stein, Joseph

A.

Robert

Sherrod

10/23/70 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Steinhoff, Dr.

Ernst A.

Eugene

Emme

9/14/73 Transfer of technology of V2 to Russia and

USA at the end of WWII, Operation Paperclip

Transcript

CS

34 pgs 8/2/6

2203

Stern, Al Damohn,

Mark

6/3/98 Role during Carter’s administration; space

shuttle program; space shuttle program costs


18986

Stevenson,

Maj. Gen.

John

Robert

Sherrod

1/16/71 Televised during Apollo 14 splashdown Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Stever, Dr. H.

Guyford

Eugene

Emme

2/2/74 NACA Committee on Space Technology Notes 10 pgs 8/2/7

2212

Stewart,

Homer Joe

Unnamed

interviewer


20004

Stiff, Ray C.;

Osborn,

John L. Sloop 4/23/74

&

Biographical information

Transcript

&

98 pgs

&

I/J/3

6690

likely taken for

“Liquid Hydrogen


Interview

ed


Remarks

George;

Heath,

William; and

Beichel, Rubi

5/1/74 CS

3 tapes &

XII/C/4

19999

as a Propulsion

Fuel, 1945-1959”

but not cited

Stocking,

William

Unnamed

interviewer

8/19/75 Martin Marietta Corp. responsibility for

Skylab training for EVA and experiment

simulations; performance of Skylab 4 crew;

scheduling of experiments


2221

Stofan,

Andrew

Adam Gruen 11/13/87 As Director of Lewis Research Center from

1982; problems with Strategic Planning;

politics affecting centers-with in and with out

NASA; determining location responsibility for

Space Station

Transcript

&

CS

51 pgs &

1 tape

8/2/7

2225

&

XII/C/3

20225

Stofan,

Andrew

Adam Gruen 3/7/88 Difficulties with budget approval; plans to leave

job associated with Space Station; political

decisions affecting technical decisions

Transcript

&

CS

37 pgs

&

1 tape

8/2/7

2225 &

XII/C/3

20225

Dr. Stolarski Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

Ozone CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Stone, Dr.

Edward C.

Unnamed

Interviewer

4/17/84 Uranus, Neptune CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Storm,

Richard

Adam L.

Gruen


&

CS

43 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6690 &

XII/C/3

20225

Storms,

Harrison

Ivan Ertel &

Others

6/6/66 North American Aviation (NAA); spacecraft

design; Apollo command and service module

(CSM); program management; Apollo

program; ground support equipment (GSE)


19541

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Storms,

Harrison

James Burke 5/14/79 North American Aviation (NAA) proposal and

winning Apollo spacecraft contract, X-15

project experience by NAA; systems and

equipment reliability testing, relations with

NASA employees; LOR for lunar landing in

Phillips Report; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and its

impact


2232

Copyrighted by

BBC


Interview

ed


Remarks

Storn,

Richard

Adam L.

Gruen


Strangway,

Dr. David

Robert

Sherrod

7/27/72 “What we found on the moon.”; Geophysics:

geology of the moon

Transcript

&

CS

Reel

11 pgs

&

1 tape

1 Hour

20511 &

13290 &

20512

Strauss, H.

Kurt

Interviewer

unnamed

5/21/68 STG 1959, Project Boomerang, Project Apollo,

Nova, Golovin Committee


603

Cross referenced

in Maxime Faget

file

Strickland,

Zack

Robert

Sherrod

7/19/71 NAA covering manned Apollo shots up to

Apollo 11 landing

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Strickland,

Zack

Robert

Sherrod

7/16/71 Phillips Report; NAA personalities at time of

Phillips report

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13290

Strothman,

James

Robert

Sherrod

12/17/69 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire from Associate Press

reporter’s point of view

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Stroud,

William

Eugene

Emme

9/21/73 Manhattan Project work; experiments with V2

rockets; atmospheric research with

meteorological balloons and rockets;

meteorological research and IGY experiments

with Army Signal Corps; transfer of Signal

Corps scientists to GSFC; Explorer 1 project;

AEC attempt to take over all nuclear

propulsion research; Stever Committee and

reorganization of NACA into NASA; Tiros

satellite project transfer to NASA; Juno 2,

Vanguard 2, and Nimbus satellite projects

Transcript 107 pgs

8/2/8

2239

For “Early

History of NASA”

Stuckmeyer,

William E.

Robert

Sherrod

11/10/71 Awarding of Lunar Roving Vehicle to Boeing Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Stuhlinger,

Dr. Ernst

Eugene

Emme

3/7/74 Operation Paperclip; von Braun’s Lunar

mission, Project SLUG; ABMA; Project

Orbiter; transfer to NASA, Development Of

Mercury- Redstone launch vehicle; early Lunar

mission studies

Transcript

&

CS

39 pgs

&

70 min

8/2/8

2241 &

I/J/2

13491 &

XII/C/4

19995

2 copies, each

with handwritten

corrections

For “Early

History of NASA”

Stuhlinger,

Dr. Ernst

J.D. Hunley 9/20/94 Ernst Steinhoff’s role in A4 guidance and

control system development; acceleration;


2241


Interview

ed


Remarks

distance; velocity; Muehlner; JPL vs. German

R&D; fuel for propulsion; Nazi politics

affecting rocket R&D

Syvertson,

Clarence A.

Walter

Bonney

9/25/74 NACA research at Ames in supersonic flight,

design of supersonic wind tunnel; X20 Dyna-

Soar project; M2 lifting body research; Ames

Laboratory management


2257

4 copies, slightly

different

handwritten

corrections

Syvertson,

Clarence A.

Richard

Hallion

3/7/79 NACA research at Ames in supersonic flight,

design of supersonic wind tunnel; X20 Dyna-

Soar project; M2 lifting body research; Ames

Laboratory management


2257

Talay,

Theodore A.

Andrew

Butrica

5/21/97 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Tanner, E.

Ray

Adam Gruen 6/29/89 Program, technical, and real systems

engineering; Phillips Report; recruiting for

Level 2 Space Station; staffing problems due to

local housing costs/environ. Concerns;

management organization disputes for Space

Station; safety precautions

Transcript

&

CS

34 pgs

&

1 tape

8/2/9

2258

&

XII/C/3

20225

Taticheff,

Alex

Edward Ezell 4/30/74 Interpreter for United Nations, State

Department, and for NASA on ASTP


2261

2 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Taub,

William P.

Sandra

Johnson

11/08/06 Decades long career at NACA and NASA; role

as photographer of astronauts and others

Transcript

CD

28 pgs

2 CDS

TBD

Taylor, Ada Unnamed

interviewer

7/22/75 Interpreter for Group 1, documentation, at

Rockwell International for ASTP


2263

Teague, Olin

E.

Robert

Sherrod

4/1/69 204 fire – viewed as accident, no one and

everyone at fault

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Teague, Olin

E.

John Logsdon 8/13/70 Space Shuttle decision; funding of shuttle

program; getting public and congressional

support for space program

Transcript

&

Reel

20 pgs

&

Side 2

8/3/1

2274

&

XII/B/1

20002

Transcript: 2 copies,

1 with handwritten

corrections

Reel: See Homer

Newell tape

Teller,

Edward

Donald R.

Baucom

7/6/87 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Transcript 9 pgs IV/B/6

16766


Interview

ed


Remarks

Templeton,

Pat

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

date

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Thagard, Dr.

Norman

Glenn

Swanson

Countdown

Magazine

8/14/95 Being aboard MIR; communications with the

ground; EVA; Russian language training; space

food; Russian space program vs. US space

program

Transcript

&

CS

27 pgs

&

1 tape

I/I/1

18987

& XII/B/4

20037

5 in. diskette

enclosed

Thibodaux,

Joseph G.

Joe

Guilmartin

and John

Mauer

12/12/83 Dyna-Soar in USAF leading to Mercury, Scout

launch vehicles


2290

Thibodeaux,

Joseph G.

Eugene

Emme

8/23/73 Pilotless Aircraft Research Division at Wallops

Is., Scout and Little Joe launch vehicles; STG;

impressions of Max Faget, Robert Gilruth, and

Floyd Thompson


2290

Thomas, John Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

date

SRB Design team CS 3 tapes XII/C/4

20037

Tape 1 of 2 not

found

Thomas,

Ronald

Adam L.

Gruen

10/26/90 NASA Culture study Transcript

&

CS

32 pgs &

1 tape

I/J/3

6691 &

XII/C/3

20225

Thompson,

Dr. Floyd L.

Robert

Sherrod

9/10/69 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation; need for

non-tech. Explanation to public; recordings;

subsequent improvements

Notes 4 pgs III/B/3

13290

Thompson,

Dr. Floyd L.

Unknown 1/16/68 Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20004

Thompson,

Dr. Floyd L.

Eugene

Emme


&

CS

112 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/J/2

13492 &

XII/C/4

19995

2 copies

Thompson,

James R.

Kevin Rusnak 4/29/02 Thompson’s NASA career and as a member of

Challenger investigation team

Transcript

CD

Disk

22 pgs. I/I/3

18108

Thompson,

Milton O.

Unnamed

interviewer

1/5/78 Biographical information

Notes 1 pg. I/J/3

6691


Interview

ed


Remarks

Thompson,

Milton O.

Unnamed

interviewer

3/29/76 Biographical information Notes I/J/3

6691

Thompson,

Milton O.

Nancy Brun 5/19/76 M2-F1 responsibility; USAF role; end of HL-10

flights; lifting body program applications to

space shuttle

Notes 2 pgs 8/3/3

2313

Thompson,

Robert

& Emilio

Alfoso

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Branch Head Impact Dynamics (Crash Tests)

LaRC

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Emelio Alfoso

interview also on

tape

Thompson,

Bob

Unnamed

Interviewer

Tape

received

6/12/73

Skylab 1 damage during launch Transcript 24 pgs 8/3/3

2314

& 7/11/4

7591

Thompson,

Robert


20225

Thompson,

Robert

Edward Ezell 5/12/81 STS Program Transcript 37 pgs 8/3/3

2314

Timmons,

Ken

Unnamed

interviewer

8/20/75 Skylab multiple docking adapter; “wet” vs.

“dry” workshop; Martin Marietta Co

relationship with MSFC; coord and integration

of Skylab experiments; Earth resources

experiments


2324

Tindall Jr.,

Howard W.

Robert

Sherrod

2/5/70 Unsung heroes of Apollo; factors indispensable

to Apollo’s success; navigation to moon and

back

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13290

Tindall Jr.,

Howard W.

Robert

Sherrod

4/23/72 Time at NASA; Apollo Transcript

&

CS

Reel

20 pgs

&

1 tape

1 tape

13290 &

20511 &

20512

Tindall,

Howard, et al

John Logsdon

(moderator)

7/21/89 Discussion among key players in Apollo

Program including Tindall, George Mueller,

Owen Morris, Maxime Faget, Robert Gilruth,

and Christopher Kraft re managing the Apollo

program; NASA management in the Space

Shuttle era; and lessons of the Apollo program


18924

Panel discussion


Interview

ed


Remarks

Tischler,

Adelbert O.

John Sloop 1/25/74 Early career, rocket lab expert at NASA HQ;

Office of Applications; NASA organization,

theory on rapid NASA growth; Abe Silverstein;

Gen. Ostrander; Werner von Braun; ARPA;

engine R&D for Launch Vehicles; absorption of

USAF programs by NASA; MSFC;

determining propulsion methods; PFRT, F-1

Transcript

&

CS

63 pgs

&

1 tape

8/3/4

2330

&

XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Tischler,

Adelbert O.

Tom Ray 6/19/72 Office of Space Flight Development during

NASA organization; F1 engine development,

testing, contract competition, and selection of

Rocketdyne; J2 and H1 engine dev; Western

Operations Office in Apollo program; Apollo 1

fire and NASA reorg; management of liquid

propellant supplies and facilities


2330

“To See the

Unseen”

Planetary

Radar

Astronomy

History

Interviews A-

K

Andrew

Butrica

1993-

1994

Interviews with Von Eshleman, John Evans,

Thomas Gold, Richard Goldstein, William

Gordon, Paul Green, Jr., John Harmon, and

Raymond Jurgens re planetary radio

astronomy; planetary radar astronomy;

Arecibo observatory; funding; Venus;

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA);

Jupiter; Magellan probe; Mars radar surface

mapping; planetary mapping by radar; Jet

Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) radar astronomy;

Viking site selection; Jodrell Bank

Observatory; and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/1

18918

“To See the

Unseen”

Planetary

Radar

Astronomy

History

Interviews L-

Z

Andrew

Butrica

1993-

1994

Interviews with Bernard Lovell, Duane

Muhleman, Steven Ostro, Gordon Pettengill,

Robert Price, Alan Rogers, Irwin Shapiro,

Martin Slade, William Smith, Thomas

Thompson, G. Leonard Tyler, and Herbert

Weiss re Jodrell Bank Observatory;

international cooperation with the Soviet

Union; Venus; planetary radar astronomy;

Goldstone radar; planetary radar mapping;

Mercury; Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL);

Haystack radar; MIT Lincoln Laboratory;

Transcripts Various

lengths

I/J/1

18919


Interview

ed


Remarks

Saturn's rings; Jupiter; asteroid radar

mapping; Magellan probe; Arecibo

Observatory; and Pioneer Venus probe.

Tousey, Dr.

Richard

David

Compton

4/20/76 Opinion of manned vs. unmanned programs,

ATM project, development, design, and use on

Skylab


2354

Truax,

Robert C.

A.B.

Christman

3/16/72 Association with Robert Goddard Transcript 29 pages

including 2

pg. index

8/3/6

2368

Truax,

Robert C.

John L. Sloop 8/10/73 CS 1 tape XII/E/4

19489

Truax,

Robert C.

J. D. Hunley 3/27/02 Educational background and experiences in US

Navy; rocket engine design; liquid propulsion;

Reaction Motors; Polaris missile; Advanced

Research Projects Agency (ARPA); formation

of NASA; Truax Engineering; Evel Knievel

Snake River Canyon jump

Transcript 57 pages I/I/1

18988

Truly,

Richard

Rebecca

Wright

6/16/03 Military career and work on MOL, and NASA

career including work on astronaut program

and Skylab

Transcript

&

CD

15 pgs I/I/4

19829

Truszynski,

Gerald M.

Richard

Hallion

5/21/71 Instrument Division at NACA High Speed

Flight Station and XS1 and X1 test flights


2370

& I/J/3

6691

Truszynski,

Gerald M.

James

Grimwood

9/13/66 Gemini Program Operations Chief – Off. Of

Space Flight Operations; Mercury/ Gemini

transitions

Transcript 1 pg. 8/3/6

2369

Turantsky,

Clem

Courtney

Brooks

12/2/71 Bell Aerospace Co contract for dev of fuel lines

and valves for Apollo Lunar Module


2387

Turner,

Harold

Richard

Hallion

11/11/71 Ramjet and jet research during WWII Transcript 5 pgs 8/3/7

2388

Tyler, G.

Leonard

Andrew

Butrica


see Chief

Archivist

Ullberg, Alan Robert 8/22/69 Legal assistant’s perspective of Apollo 1 (AS- Notes 2 pgs III/B/3


Interview

ed


Remarks

D. Sherrod 204) fire hearings 13290

Ullberg, Alan

D.

Robert

Sherrod

2/4/69 Webb papers and influences Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Ulmer, Ralph Arthur

Levine

8/18/60 NACA relations with BoB, congressional

committee staffs and presidents; comparison of

structure of NACA with NASA; career with

NACA at Langley Lab

Notes 6 pgs 8/3/7

2399

2 copies – one

onionskin, one

paper

Ulmer, Ralph Unnamed

interviewer

12/20/66 1938-40 propeller research at Langley; 1940,

position as asst to executive officer at NACA

HQ

Notes 3 pgs 8/3/7

2399

Ulmer, Ralph Robert

Sherrod

6/1/71 Personnel during MSFC Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Underwood,

Richard

Robert

Sherrod

1/23/70 Photography of Apollo 8 Notes 6 pgs III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Underwood,

William

Unnamed

interviewer

8/19/66 NACA/USAF liaison personnel and activities Notes 2 pgs 8/3/7

2401

Urey, Dr.

Harold C.

Eugene

Emme and

Cargill Hall

10/18/76 Organization of space science during formation

of NASA; NAS Space Science Board research

and recommendations; moon and meteorite

studies; lunar exploration missions and results;

Apollo program contributions to science

Transcript

42 pgs

8/3/7

2403

For “Early

History of NASA”

Urey, Dr.

Harold C.

Robert

Jastrow

ca. 1981 Ramifications of the Apollo program Transcript 26 pgs 8/3/7

16902

Van Der

Woude,

Jurrie

&

Jay Belloli

Unnamed

interviewer

Unknown

Date

Senior public affairs specialist – JPL; “25 Years

of Space Photography” exhibit

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Jay Belloli

interview also on

tape

Van Leeuwen,

George H.

Roger D.

Launius

2/6-13/86 WWII US Army Air Force (USAAF) logistics;

post-WWII base closures; USAF supply and

logistics

Transcript 71 pages I/I/1

18989

Indexed

Victory, Dr.

John F.

Capt. A.F.

Hurley

6/29/62 Aviation history; military career of Billy

Mitchell; effort for united air service;

effectiveness and effort for Naval operation,

dirigible support; Mitchell courts- martial;

aircraft industry and nat’l security; aviation in

Transcript

&

Reel

34 pgs

&

3 tapes

8/3/7

2439

&

XII/B/1

20004


Interview

ed


Remarks

army Signal Corps under Gen. Squire; Navy

Bureau of Aeronautics; research and

development of cowlings, propellers, multi-

engine placement, and WWII bombers and

pursuit planes; Air Commerce Act and Army

Air Corps Act; NACA organization and 1st

industry meetings; Hughes’ invest. Of Army,

Navy, NACA, and industry affairs; NACA

Congressional relations and funding

Victory, Dr.

John F.

Unnamed

interviewer

7/21/60 Reasons for success of NACA and relations

with BoB, DoD, industry, Presidents, and

Congress


2438

Victory, Dr.

John F.

Eugene

Emme &

another

unnamed

interviewer

8/29/60 Aeronautics during WWI; patent dispute; dev

of Martin B10 Bomber, Boeing B17, North Am

P51 and P39 aircraft, drafting of NACA

employees, NACA annual inspection tours,

wind tunnels, coop. with industry, expanding

NACA; George Lewis trip to Germany before

WWII

Notes

&

Reel

4 pgs

&

1 tape

8/3/9

2438

&

XII/B/1

20004

Victory, Dr.

John F.

Unnamed

interviewer

8/12/60 Interview on last day, side 2 includes copy of

7/1/59 interview re: NASA and 1956 American

Legion interview

Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20004

Victory, Dr.

John F.

Unnamed

interviewer

8/29/60 Boeing B-17 Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20004

Victory, John

F.

Eugene

Emme

10/21/66 Biographical information Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20004

Vinograd, Dr.

Sherman P.

John A. Pitts 5/10/79 Biomedical research; effects of weightlessness;

long duration space flight; motion sickness;

MSFEB; Randolph Lovelace, relationship with

astronauts; IMBLMS; Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire;

lunar quarantine; biosatellites; evolution and

organization of life sciences function at NASA

Transcript

&

CS

74 pgs

&

1 tape

8/3/9

2445

&

XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Vinograd, Dr.

Sherman P.

Mae M. Link 7/23/70 Director IMBLMS Program and research and

Technology; Direct. Space Medicine Office,

Manned Space Flight, lts NASA

Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20004

Voas, Dr. Robert 1/12/70 Astronaut selection and training; opinion of Notes 5 pgs III/B/3


Interview

ed


Remarks

Robert B. Sherrod original seven; 1st and 2nd group 13290

Voas, Dr.

Robert B.

John A. Pitts 10/19/79 CS 1 tape XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Voas, Dr.

Robert B.

Unnamed

interviewer

No date Mercury 7 astronaut selection and training;

role of “human factors” in dev of training

modules and simulators


2449

Vogel, Col.

Lawrence

Robert

Sherrod

10/23/69 James Webb Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Vogel, Col.

Lawrence

Robert

Sherrod

11/25/70 Webb’s actions after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire Notes 5 pgs III/B/3

13290

Vogel, Col.

Lawrence

Robert

Sherrod

8/22/69 Biographical info; Phillips Report; Webb’s

testimony; NAA contract

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13290

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Walter Sohier

Eugene

Emme

3/31/64 Pres. Kennedy’s role in US Space Program;

civilian importance of space program,

Kennedy’s visits to MSFC, Cape Canaveral,

and MSC; Kennedy’s speech at Rice University,

US/USSR space cooperation

Reel

&

Transcript

1 tape

&

23 pgs

XII/B/1

20005

&

8/4/5

2627

2 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Copyrighted by

JFK Library

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

John Logsdon 8/25/70 Post-Apollo planning, von Braun’s

congressional testimony re: manned Mars

exploration; Skylab; MSFC role in NASA

integrated planning; difference bet. MSFC and

JSC; shuttle concepts; von Braun’s and PSG in

NASA planning; Apollo program

Transcript

&

Reel

23 pgs

&

1 tape

8/4/5

2629

&

XII/B/2

20008

2 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Tom Ray 8/27/70 Creation of NASA; transfer of ABMA to

NASA; Hugh Dryden’s role in NACA and

NASA; NASA organization


2630

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Tom Ray 8/28/70 Program management; use of PERT and SARP

charts; Cape Canaveral launch facilities; NASA

coop with military for launches; inter- center

coop; use of working groups


2631

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Unnamed

interviewer

11/17/71 Evolution of Saturn launch vehicles; role of

ARPA; development of LM and Lunar Rover;

Soviet launch vehicles; Apollo Program

management


2632

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Tom Ray 11/30/71 Development and design of Saturn launch

vehicles; project management


2633


Interview

ed


Remarks

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Robert

Sherrod

8/25/70 decision to use lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)

instead of earth orbit rendezvous (EOR) in the

Apollo program; Saturn launch vehicles;

Apollo 6 test flight of the Saturn V rocket;

decision to send Apollo 8 on a circumlunar

mission; lunar module (LM) as lifeboat and

Apollo 13 flight; and applications of Apollo

systems analysis to social problems

Reel

&

Transcript

&

CS

&

CD

1 tape

&

21 pgs

&

48 min

&

1 CD

20511 &

20512 &

13290

&

19542

Transcript: 2

copies – 1 with

handwritten

corrections,

For “Before This

Decade is Out”

Von Braun,

Dr. Wernher

Robert

Sherrod

11/19/69 Safety before scientists on moon; weight of LM;

early space shuttle design; Norman Mailer;

“Reaching for the Stars” movie; future of von

Braun and Huntsville; Webb; Rees

Notes 7 pgs III/B/3

13290

Von

Tiesenhausen,

Georg F.

Unnamed

Interviewer

10/13/83 Radio Interview on tether applications CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Voyles, Jr.

Colonel

James H.

not supplied 2/1/73 Biographical information Notes 1 page I/J/3

6691

Vrebalovich,

Dr. Thomas

R. Cargill

Hall

6/11/74 Transcript Copyrighted by

JPL

Wagner,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

2/3/70 George Mueller Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Wagner,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

4/15/69 Liquid hydrogen, IBM 360 Model 75 computer,

equipment functioning, Manned Space Flight

Awareness program, single failure point

analysis as factors making Apollo successful

Notes 2 pgs III/B/3

13290

Wagner,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

10/27/69 Rocco Petrone and Sam Phillips Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Wagner,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

3/27/69 Wagner’s clarification of Grissom’s quotes Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

Wagner,

Robert

Robert

Sherrod

3/14/69 BELLCOMM opposition to C’ mission Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Walker,

Harold

Richard P.

Hallion


6691


Interview

ed


Remarks

Walsh, J.

Paul

Unnamed

Interviewer

4/18/67 Participation on Vanguard launch vehicle and

Viking projects at NRL as a liaison to Martin

Co.

Notes 3 pgs 8/5/1

2205

Walsh, Mike Unnamed

Interviewer

1/22/87 Lake Riblets CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Ward,

Douglas

Robert

Sherrod

10/27/72 Astronauts’ stamp deal Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Warmbrodt,

Bill

Unnamed

Interviewer

Unknown

Date

Branch Chief, Rotary Wing Aeromechanics

Branch, Ames Rotorcraft Research

CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Warren, Dr.

James V.

John Pitts 6/20/79 Biomedical aspects of MSP; membership on

NASA’s Space Medicine Advisory Group and

PSAC Biomedical Sub Panel; physiology and

cardiology; international coop in biomedical

field


2512

Washington

Goes to the

Moon Radio

Show

Interviews on

WAMU-FM,

Washington,

DC

7/99 Interviews with Glen Wilson, former Sen.

Science Comm. staffer; Howard McCurdy and

Roger Launius re. Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,

funding Apollo, and opposition to Apollo; Walter

Mondale re funding space program in the 1960s;

Charles Schultze, former WH Budget Director,

re space program funding in the 1960s; Walter

Cronkite re news coverage of the space program;

Amitai Etzioni re space program during the

1960s; Paul Dembling, former NASA Cong.

Liaison; and Robert Seamans, former Dep.

Administrator.

Also Includes “News of the Day” Apollo

newsreel.

Transcripts

DAT Audio

Tapes &

1 Disk

Various

lengths

I/I/3

18108

Wasserburg,

Gerald J.,

James Arnold

& Robert

Walker

James Burke 5/15/79 Manned vs. unmanned exploration of moon;

science in Apollo program; selection of

experiments for Apollo; quarantine and study

of lunar samples; findings from samples;

establishment of lunar sample curatorial

facility; cancellation of Apollo 18-20 missions;

future policy for space exploration


2215

Copyrighted by

the BBC


Interview

ed


Remarks

Wattendorf

Dr. Frank L.

Walter

Bonney

6/26/73 Work at CalTech under Dr. Theodore von

Karman; Caltech coop with NACA; tour of

China; wind tunnel and aircraft research

during WWII; post war trip to Germany as

member of AGARD Scientific Advisory Group;

von Karman’s relationships with Vannevar

Bush and Hugh Dryden; von Karman’s

involvement with aeronautical research after

WWII; strengths of NACA; reorg of

aeronautical research after WWII


2520

Webb, James

E. and Dr.

Seamans

Edgar

Cortright

2/8/67 Pre-congressional hearing review of Voyager

management


10981

Webb, James

E.

Logsdon,

John &

Emme,

Eugene

12/15/67 Manned Lunar Landing Decision Reel 2 tapes XII/B/1

20005

& XII/B/2

20009

Webb, James

E.

T.H. Baker 4/29/69 First contact with Lyndon Johnson, White

House relations, JFK’s views on manned space

flight, direction of NASA manned space flight

programs


18990

Personal

statement given to

Lyndon B.

Johnson Library

Webb, James

E.

Robert

Sherrod

8/2/68 Meeting with Mondale in response to Phillips

Report; Rees assignment to NAA; NAA vs.

Martin Marietta contract

Notes 7 pgs III/B/3

13290

Webb, James

E.

Robert

Sherrod

11/15/68 Story of Webb’s resignation Notes 4 pgs III/B/3

13290

Webb, James

E.

Robert

Sherrod

6/8/69 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire as “failure of

management”

Notes 5 pgs III/B/3

13290

Webb, James

E.

Robert

Sherrod

6/16/69 Movements the day of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire;

consequences of the fire; why NASA PR heavily

criticized

Notes 4 pgs III/B/3

13290

Webb, James

E.

Robert

Sherrod

9/17/69 Wiesner vs. Webb; retirement announcement Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13290

Webb, James

E.

Robert

Sherrod

4/28/71 Independent estimates of run-out costs for

going to the moon; Phillips Report as “a set of

notes;” 12/66 NAA contract; actions after the

Notes

&

CS

6 pgs

&

1 tape

13290 &

20511

& 20005


Interview

ed


Remarks

fire; Seamans; FY1968 budget; McNamara;

trip to Alabama; center/HQ relations; Holmes

&

Reel

&

Transcript

&

CD

&

1 tape

&

48 pgs

&

1 CD

&

3523

20188

Webb, James H. George

Frederickson

5/15/69 Project management differences between

Huntsville and Houston-HQ's role; competition

to strengthen centers; bureaucracy; focused vs

broad goals; appropriation of funds; NASA

reorganization


3523 &

8/1/8

2043 &

6/2/1

1961

Webb, James

E.

Cargill Hall 10/26/72 Transcript Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Webb, James

E.

Charles

Atkins and

Eugene

Emme

9/9/66 NASA and National Academy of Sciences

(NAS) Space Science Board

Transcript

&

Reel

23 pgs

&

2 tapes

6/2/1

3523

& XII/B/1

20005

& XII/B/2

20008

2 copies

Webb, James

E.

Unnamed

interviewer


20008

Webb, James

E.

Drs. Harvey

and Suojanen

3/16/68 Development of research and development

policy and management of large governmental

and institutional programs


3523

Webb, James

E.

John Logsdon 9/1/70 Post-Apollo Planning Reel

&

Transcript

1 tape

&

33 pgs

XII/B/1

20005

& 6/2/2

3523

Webb, James

E.

James Burke 5/23/79 Apollo Project Transcript 30 pgs 6/2/1

3523

Copyrighted by

the BBC

Webb, James

E.

Volta Torrey

and Frank

Rowsome

6/11/74 Apollo Program; Interview for Apollo

Expeditions Book

Transcript

&

CS

28 pgs

&

1 tape

6/2/1

3523

& XII/C/4

20037


Interview

ed


Remarks

Webb, James

E.

Eugene

Emme

And Alex

Roland

4/11/74 January-June, 1961, NASA History Transcript

&

CS

51 pgs

&

2 tapes

I/J/2

13495 &

XII/C/4

19995

For “Early

History of NASA”

Webb, James

E.

Unnamed

interviewer

3/21/?? “Face the Nation” CBS Reel 1 tape XII/B/1

20005

Copyrighted by

CBS

Weber,

Richard, Art

Zimmerman,

& Roger

Luidens

John L. Sloop 5/30/74 Biographical information Transcript 11pgs I/J/3

6691

2 copies

Weick, Fred

E.

Michael

Keller

10/2/67 Development of NACA cowling, Townsend

ring, nacelles using propeller research tunnel;

tricycle landing gear, high lift devices and flaps,

20 foot wind tunnel for research of speeds over

100 mph

Transcript

&

Reel

25 pgs

&

1 tape

8/5/1

2535

&

XII/B/2

20009

Weil, Joe Richard

Hallion


&

CS

29 pgs

1 tape

I/J/3

6691

& XII/B/3

19996

For “On the

Frontier”

Weiler, Dr.

Edward J.

Unnamed

Interviewer

10/29/86 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Weiler, Dr.

Edward J.

Dr. Steven J.

Dick


Associate Administrator for Space Science;

impact of Columbia (STS-107) accident on fifth

servicing mission; decision to cancel fifth

servicing mission; announcement of

cancellation; public reaction to announcement

of cancellation; James Webb Space Telescope

(JWST)

Transcript

&

CS

21 pgs

&

1 tape

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484

Weinberger,

Caspar

John Logsdon 8/23/77 The Nixon Administration and the Space

Shuttle decision process

Transcripts

&

Notes

20 pgs

&

2 pgs

8/5/1

2539 &

2/3/7

7915

Weisenberg,

Irwin J.


&

43 pgs

&

I/J/3

6691


Interview

ed


Remarks

CS 1 tape & XII/E/4

19489

Weisskopf,

Martin

Unnamed

Interviewer

7/16/86 AXAF (Chandra) CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Welsh, Dr.

Edward C.

John Logsdon 8/14/67 First contact with JFK on space issue;

organization and activation of NASC in 1961 by

Kennedy; early funding of Apollo program;

setting of space policy under JFK; influence of

Bay of Pigs on space program and launch of

Alan Shepard’s Mercury MR3 suborbital

flight; NASC meetings and attendees; Lunar

landing decision and development of large

booster; USAF space program

Transcript

&

1 reel

27 pgs

&

1 tape

8/5/2

2547

&

XII/B/2

20009

Welsh, Dr.

Edward C.

Eugene

Emme,

Addison

Rothrock,

and Walter

Sohier

5/16/64 Transition from Eisenhower to Kennedy

Administration; appointment of committee to

study space policy, Welsh’s position on Senator

Stuart Symington’s staff and committee to

study reorganization of defense establishment;

organization of NASC and LBJ as chair; Welsh

as Exec. Secretary and role of NASC; relations

with JFK and NASC to establish space policy;

Lunar landing decision; getting public support

and beating Soviets in space race

Transcript

&

Reel

62 pgs

&

3 tapes

8/5/2

2548

&

IV/A/6

12487

&

XII/B/1

20005

Copyrighted by

JFK Library


Interview

ed


Remarks

Welsh, Dr.

Edward C.

Eugene

Emme,

William

Putnam, and

David

McComb

2/20/69 Symington Hearings on air power; relations

bet. Symington and VP LBJ; Navajo launch

vehicle project; organization and creation of

Nat’l Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958;

distinction bet. Peaceful and military space

policy for NASA; reorg of charter for NASC to

include VP as chair; LBJ participation in

drafting space act; merging projects and

agencies into NASA; NASC functions and

operations; influence of Bay of Pigs on 1st

manned Mercury flight; factors leading to

Lunar landing decision; effort to ID any NASA

and DoD research duplication; policies on SST,

MOL, Saturn 1B and Titan 3 launch vehicles;

Apollo 1 fire, VP Humphrey as chair of NASC;

political support for space program


2548

2 copies, 1 with

handwritten

corrections

Welsh, Dr.

Edward C.

James Burke 5/22/79 Decision to go to moon, influence of Bay of Pigs

on space program; science policy in Apollo

program; US/ Soviet space race; public support

for Apollo


2549

Copyrighted by

the BBC

Wensley,

Dave


20225

Wertheim,

Rear Adm.

Robert

J.D. Hunley 4/2/02 Development of Polaris missile; nuclear

weapons; launch vehicle design; Trident missile


18991

Westrate, J.

Lee

Unnamed

interviewer

8/15/73 CS Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Whitcomb,

Richard

John

Anderson

4/22/99 NASA, AIAA, and NASM interview: swept

wings; area rule; airplane design; wind tunnel

testing; F100 century series aircraft; receipt of

the Collier trophy; B58; supersonic aircraft;

Boeing 747; supercritical airfoil; winglets;

NACA/NASA relations with industry

Transcript

&

CS

64 pgs &

3 Tapes

I/I/1

18992

Whitcomb,

Richard

Walter

Bonney

3/27/73 Transonic wind tunnel and development of

Area Rule; wing/body shape effect on shock


2586


Interview

ed


Remarks

wave; uncertainty of supersonic flight; Wally

Hayes’ theory; approaching Mach 1; 747’s not

available for transonic flight; development of

transonic tunnel; policies/ procedures for tests

in 1943-51

White, Maj.

Gen. Edward

Robert

Sherrod

12/29/69 Delay in release of info to public about Apollo 1

(AS-204) fire

Notes 1 pg. III/B/3

13290

Telephone

interview

White, Lt.

Col. Stanley

C.

John A. Pitts 6/21/79 Move of STG to Houston; astronaut training

and biomedical tests; NASA/ DoD life support

system cooperation, spacecraft environment

control, diet, psychology, and recovery

operations; USAF School of Aviation Medicine

biomed experiments with animals on sounding

rockets; preventative medicine for astronauts;

Skylab biomedical experiments; comparison of

NASA culture during Mercury and Skylab

projects – taken at same time as “The Human

Factor” interviews but not used in book.

Transcript

&

CS

47 pgs

&

1 tape

8/5/3

2592

&

XII/B/3

19996

2 copies, 1

unedited, 1 edited

White, Lt. Col.

Stanley C.

Dr. Merrifield 8/20/65 Medicine and space biology vs. engineering; X-

15 pressure suit and space diet development;

Mercury teamwork; NA and GE proposals to

Langley; USAF end of space involvement;

assignment to NASA; test pilot stress testing;

1958 Wood’s Hole scientific conference on man-

in-space; pilot control testing in Mercury;

communications in orbit; lack of DoD bias

against NASA in biology; Man in Space Soonest

(MISS); pulse rate in pilots

Notes 12 pgs 8/5/3

2592

Why No U.S.

Mission to

Comet Halley?

Interviews

John Logsdon 1986 Interviews with Robert Farquahar, Louis

Friedman, Robert Frosch, Angelo Gustaferro,

Daniel Herman, Noel Hinners, George

Keyworth, Eugene Levy, Bruce Murray,

Marcia Neugebauer, Joseph Veverka, and

Gerald Wasserburg

Notes Various

lengths

I/J/5

13937

&

I/J/5

13939

Wiesner, Dr.

Jerome B.

Don Neff 2/12/69 Early stages on space policy and debate of

manned vs. unmanned space exploration; large


2605

Copyrighted by

Time, Inc.


Interview

ed


Remarks

launch vehicle study group (“Golovin

Committee”); search by JFK for replacement of

manned lunar landing; debate between PSAC

and NASA on EOR vs. LOR

Wiesner, Dr.

Jerome B.

Eugene

Skolnikoff

8/8/67 Space and space policy under President

Eisenhower; utilization of PSAC and science

advisors; PSAC relations with federal agencies;

handling of Robert Oppenheimer by JFK

Admin; science and disarmament policy under

JFK and role of PSAC in White House policy

making; advisor to Kennedy campaign; US-

Soviet negotiations for test ban and arms

control; Project Westford (“Needles”) and

environ. Concerns of orbiting belt of copper

needles to reflect radio waves; role of scientists

in international coop and foreign policy; foreign

aid sent and model devised to aid agricultural

problems in Pakistan; reform of educ. system in

US; role of scientist in policy making


2604

Wiesner, Dr.

Jerome C.

Eugene

Emme and

Alex Roland

7/24/74 Positions in White House during Eisenhower

and Kennedy administrations; work on von

Neumann Committee; support for von Braun

team, ABMA, 1st manned space flight; ICBM

program; reaction to Sputnik; TCP; activities

and policies of PSAC –

For “Early History of NASA”

Transcript

&

CS

26 pgs

&

1 tape

8/5/3

2605

& I/J/2

13460 &

XII/C/4

19995

Wilford, John

Noble

Unnamed

Interviewer

8/12/86 All Things Considered WAMU Radio CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Wilhite, Alan Andrew

Butrica

5/22/97 Transcript

&

CS

Access restricted,

see Chief

Archivist

Williams, Dr.

Walter C.

Addison

Rothrock, Jay

Holmes, and

Eugene

Emme

3/25/64 Meetings with President Kennedy at White

House, NASA centers, and Rice Univ.; decision

for LOR mission mode for Apollo Lunar

landing; 1961 Wiesner report on Mercury

Project; meetings with PSAC sub-panel on

Transcript

&

Reel

27 pgs

&

2 copies

of tape

8/5/3

2620

&

XII/B/1

20005

4 copies in file

&

1 original, 1 dupe


Interview

ed


Remarks

decision to proceed with manned space flight;

experiences of X-15 pilots nearing space;

differences in attitudes toward space program

bet. JFK and Eisenhower Admins; decision to

go to the moon; Mercury MA6 orbital flight by

John Glenn; debate to add additional Mercury

flight; safety considerations for test pilots and

astronauts; press coverage during Mercury

flights; can elation of X20 Dyna-Soar program;

outlook on NASA/USAF cooperation for

Gemini program

Williams,

John J.

James

Grimwood,

Ivan Ertel,

and Mr.

Wiley

5/24/67 Assistant manager for Gemini Program at

MSC; Mercury and Gemini spacecraft

development


2617

Williams,

Walter C.

Robert

Merrifield

12/13/67 MSC History: organization and operation of

Space Task Group; NASA/ DoD relations;

relocation of STG from Langley to MSC; coop

with ABMA; engineers working on Redstone

Launch vehicle; operations of tracking stations;

personalities involved in Mercury and Gemini

programs


2618

Williams,

Walter C.

Robert

Sherrod

6/29/68 Career; Holmes/Webb break; personalities of

astronauts; LBJ anecdotes

Notes 3 pgs III/B/3

13290

Williams,

Walter C.

Robert

Sherrod

2/10/71 Mercury astronauts, attempt to get additional

Mercury flight, selection of NAA for design of

Apollo capsule, emergency procedures and use

of explosive hatch for Apollo

Notes 4 pgs 8/5/3

2618

& III/B/3

13290

Williams,

Walter C.

Richard P.

Hallion


&

CS

81 pgs

&

1 tape

I/J/3

6691

& XII/B/3

19996

2 copies

For “On the

Frontier”

Williamson,

David Jr.

Robert

Sherrod

4/10/72 Webb/Seamans break; loss of Dryden; opinion

of Webb; Holmes/Webb break; firing Shea;

opinion of Apollo project; Webb’s resignation

Notes 7 pgs III/B/3

13290


Interview

ed


Remarks

Wilson,

Joseph

Richard P.

Hallion

2/23/77 Biographical information Notes 1 page I/J/3

6691

Winter, Dr.

David

John A. Pitts 5/8/79 Life Sciences CS 1 tape XII/B/3

19996

For “The Human

Factor”

Wiseman,

Jennifer

Dr. Steven J.

Dick


Program Scientist for HST Program;

organization of HST program management;

view of fifth servicing mission in the science

community; Bahcall committee; assumption of

a sixth servicing mission by science community;

decision to cancel fifth servicing mission;

announcement of cancellation decision;

possibilities of extending HST lifespan;

attempts by scientific community to get fifth

servicing mission reinstated

Transcript

&

CS

25 pgs

&

1 tape

I/I/4

19820

&

XII/D/2

5484

Withers, Col.

Hayden W.

Mae M. Link 3/28/52 background of fight for separate USAF Medical

Service

Notes 10 pgs 1/11/4

1322

2 copies in Link

file.

Wolbers,

Harry


20225

Wolverton,

Dr. Bill

Unnamed

interviewer

3/85 NSTL, Plant Studies, Hyacinths CS 1 tape XII/C/4

20037

Women Air

Force Service

Pilots

(WASP)

Interviews

Rebecca

Wright &

Carol Butler

7/18/1999

&

7/19/1999

Interviews with Mary B. Gordon, Betty S.

Frankman; Wally Funk; Doris E. Hamaker;

Teresa D. James; Dawn Seymour; Marjorie P.

Sizemore; Helen W. Snapp; Mary Anna

“Marty” Wyall

VHS

&

CS

&

Transcript

Various

lengths

XII/D/6

3287

Women in

Planetary

Science Email

Interviews

Susan Niebur 2009-

2010

Interviews with Fran Bagenal, Nadine Barlow,

Amy Barr, Natalie Batalha, Diana Blaney,

Bonnie Buratti, Anita Cochran, Ghislaine

Crozaz, Sally Dodson-Robinson, Tasha Dunn,

Darby Dyar, Megan Elwood-Madden, Christine

Floss, Alyssa Gilbert, Victoria Hamilton, Heidi

Hammel, Vicki Hansen, Tanya Harrison, Amy

Jurewicz, Catherine Johnson, Rachel Klima,

Emily Lakdawalla, Amy Lovell, Kathleen

Mandt, Rhiannon Mayne, Lucy McFadden,

Transcripts Various

lengths

XII/D/6

20232


Interview

ed


Remarks

Catherine Neish, Karly Pitman, Louise

Prockter, Carol Raymond, Sara Seager, Teresa

Segura, Rhonda Stroud, Amy Simon-Miller,

Carolyn van der Bogert, and Faith Vilas re

careers for women in planetary science and

planetary exploration; contract selection;

Kepler planet-finding spacecraft; Apollo lunar

samples; and Mars exploration.

Wood, Homer

J.


&

CS

62 pgs

&

3 tapes

I/J/3

6691

& XII/C/4

19999

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Worth,

Weldon and

Opie

Chenoweth

John L. Sloop 6/7/74 Biographical information Transcript 102 pgs I/J/3

6691

2 copies--both

with handwritten

corrections

Wright,

Gwynne A.,

Howard A.

Altman, &

Charles

Weisend


&

CS

72 pgs

&

Part of 4

tapes

I/J/3

6691

&

XII/C/4

19998

For “Liquid

Hydrogen as a

Propulsion Fuel,

1945-1959”

Wunderman,

Mrs. Liljan

Benjamin

Zibit

4/22/96 Her life with Dr. Frank Malina in 1930s and 40s Transcript 12 pgs 1/12/3

1419

Wyatt,

DeMarquis D.

John Logsdon 7/23/70 Post-Apollo planning; AAP; development of a

long range plan; STG organization and

responsibilities; planning policy of NASA

administrators James Webb and Thomas

Paine; space shuttle and space station decisions;

manned Mars exploration; NASA-

Congressional relations

Transcript

&

CS

&

Reel

52 pgs

&

45 min

&

1 tape

8/3/6

2839

&

XII/C/4

20036

&

XII/B/2

20009

2 copies, 1 edited

&

On Matthews

tape;

Conclusion of

Charles Matthews

interview on

cassette

Wyatt,

DeMarquis D.

Eugene

Emme, John

Sloop, and

William

6/21/73 NACA aeronautical research during WWII;

development and research in supersonic wind

tunnels; aerodynamics and propulsion

research; NACA space activities; organization

Transcript

&

CS

122 pgs

&

2 tapes

8/5/6

2840

&

I/J/2

For “Early

History of NASA”


Interview

ed


Remarks

Fleming of NASA; addition of JPL to NASA; Source

Selection Board for Project Mercury;

establishment of GSFC for STG and

appointment of a director; relationship between

field centers and HQ; early long range

planning; cost estimates and overruns in

Gemini and Apollo programs; Abe Silverstein

and James Webb’s management philosophies;

management of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo

programs

13498

&

XII/E/4

19489

X-33 Telecons 1/21, 5/25,

10/27/99

X-33 history CS 5 tapes I/I/2

18998

Yardley, John

F.

Summer

Chick Bergen

1/29/98 &

1/30/98

Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle

development programs

Transcripts 31 pgs

22 pgs

8/5/6

2907

Yarymovych,

Michael

Unnamed

interviewer

2/2/76 Career with NASA; Manned Orbiting Research

Laboratory and USAF MOL; AAP; “all-up

testing” decision


2908

Yeats, Dr.

Clayn

Unnamed

interviewer

JPL Interview CS 1 tape XII/C/4

YF-12

Managers

Ralph

Jackson

Circa

1972

Origins of NASA participation in the YF-12

program


11700

York, Dr.

Herbert

Eugene

Emme and

Tom Ray

6/12/73 US-USSR missile gap; satellite reconnaissance,

ICBM; Vanguard project; role of PSAC;

Saturn, Juno, Nova, and Centaur launch

vehicles; transfer of ABMA to NASA and role

of Medaris and Brucker; Project Horizon lunar

bases; Apollo Program; Eisenhower’s role in

space program; Weisner’s role in PSAC; Army

and Navy launch vehicle programs

Transcript

116 pgs

8/5/7

2918

2 copies – 1 with

handwritten

corrections

For “Early

History of NASA”

Yost, Michael Courtney

Brooks

7/17/70 Apollo Lunar Module design, contract award,

and management; development of SWIP

engine; engine testing; difference between

Gemini capsule and Apollo Command and

Service Module


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Young, John

W.

Robert

Sherrod

6/28/74 Biographical information; Apollo Transcript

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37 pgs

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Young, John

W.

Ivelisse

Rodriguez,

Stewart

Rosenbaum

3/17/83 Gemini contributions to Apollo program;

Agena target; “whifferdill”; Apollo 10 LOR

and MASCONS; Apollo 16 lunar exploration,

Lunar Rover; launch vehicles for Gemini,

Apollo, and Shuttle; Apollo historic

contributions to space program; STS-1; shuttle

as damage- resistant, despite early problems

with missing tiles; importance of STS missions;

SpaceLab significance and plans; 25th

anniversary of NASA: past and future;

eventuality of space colonization


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Young, Pearl

I.

Unnamed

interviewer


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Young, Pearl

I.

Michael

Keller

1/10/66 Research at LMAL; NACA relations with

Congress and industry; relations bet. Langley

employees and local town; impact of Great

Depression on NACA; research by NACA for

Army and Navy Bureau of Aeronautics


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Robert B.

Robert

Sherrod

1/12/72 1 year in Alabama with NASA before returning

to Aerojet

Notes

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Robert B.

John L. Sloop 4/23/74 CS 2 tapes XII/E/4

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Young,

Robert B.

Unnamed

interviewer

5/23/74 Propulsion experiments in 1945-60; hydrogen/

oxygen/gasoline; airturborocket; NERVA;

nuclear development in early 1950s; career with

Aerojet, since 1943; organization of Aerojet,

some experiments run there; acid- gasoline and

coolants; acid-JPX with 70-30; contract

backing up Rocketdyne’s Atlas propulsion

auxiliary power


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Zimmerman,

Charles

Walter

Bonney

3/30/73 Career with NACA at LMAL; development of

free flight and spin wind tunnels and vertical

thrust vector; Development Of private aircraft

by Fred Weick; benefits of NACA conferences

and inspections; employment with Chance

Vought to develop a flying wing with vertical

and horizontal flight capabilities; stability

problems with submarines; VSTOL aircraft


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Zwicky, Dr.

Fritz

R. Cargill

Hall

5/17/71 Career at CalTech; appointment as Chief of

Research Dept for Aerojet; jet propulsion and

solid propellants; launch of artificial meteors;

support for space exploration from scientific

community; discovery of supernovas; Theodore

von Karman; Hsue-Shen Tsien; leadership of

CalTech under Robert Millikan and Lee

DuBridge


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